The Grain Store Old Brighton Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 3JL Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03043/FUL - Full Application Application in Progress

Proposal

Retrospective application for the change of use of the land adjacent to The Grain Store, from agricultural land to Holiday Accommodation (Use Class C1), to extend the curtilage of The Grain Store Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 04:39

Application progress

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Received

5 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 30 Sept 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 20 Sept 2026 and 30 Sept 2026, from South Downs's recent changes of use.

Documents 2

Application forms 2

PDF CIL - FORM 1 : CIL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Application Form · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF CIL - FORM 1 : CIL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Application Form · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

South Downs National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map 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.

Public bridleway 20 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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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