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DM/25/1986 - Reserved Matters Application Approved

Proposal

Reserved matters application to consider access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for parcels 1.7, 1.8 and OS1.2S, OS1.4, OS1.7 and OS1.8 comprising Eastern Neighbourhood Centre, 270 residential dwellings, including 60 extra care units, commercial floorspace, community building, neighbourhood square, cycle and pedestrian connections, parking and associated infrastructure, Eastern Parkland comprising open space, multi-use games areas (MUGA), public art, green circle cycle link and associated infrastructure. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Aug 2025
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Validated
22 Aug 2025
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Approved
26 Mar 2026

Approved on 26 Mar 2026 · District Committee · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Local nature reserve: Bedelands Farm
Internationally or nationally protected for its wildlife. A habitats assessment is needed.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Ancient woodland about 11 m away: Coopers Shaw
Inside the 15 m buffer standing advice asks for from the boundary.
National policy refuses development that would cause loss or deterioration of ancient woodland or ancient trees unless there are wholly exceptional reasons.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Ancient Semi Natural Woodland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Public footpath about 28 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Mid Sussex
Application type
Reserved Matters Application
Received
4 Aug 2025
Validated
22 Aug 2025
Ward
Burgess Hill - Dunstall
Parish
Burgess Hill
Case officer
Show
Target decision
21 Nov 2025
Decision
Permission
Decision date
26 Mar 2026
Decision level
District Committee
Applicant
Show
Agent
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How this decision compares

Decided in 216 days from validation, 124 days slower than Mid Sussex's median of 92 for reserved matters. Approved, as 96% of reserved matters here are.

27%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
12%go to committee

Plota live figures for reserved matters decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent reserved matters in Mid Sussex to go on. Mid Sussex decision record →

Public comments

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53 neighbours consulted · Last counted 13 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-13968847
Planning Portal ref
PP-13968847
Comments by
26 Sept 2025
Committee
26 Mar 2026
Statutory expiry
21 Nov 2025
Env. assessment
No
Mid Sussex
Planning Authority Score
4.8/10
Below average
#161 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Mid Sussex ranks #150 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Mid Sussex decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #87 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #132 of 296
64%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #150 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #179 of 296
80%
Minor dwellings approved
83 decided (1-9 homes)
89%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
33 decided
1,115
Total decisions
93 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings