Place Farm The Street Firle East Sussex BN8 6LP Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03416/FUL - Full Application Application in Progress

Proposal

Change of use of an agricultural barn to a bakery (Class B2) and brewery storage (Class B8) with building alterations including internal subdivision, the creation of a new vehicular access, car parking and associated landscaping. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 06:31

Application progress

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Received

2 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 28 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 37.

Documents 1

Application forms 1

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

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 9

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.

Public bridleway 1 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.

Firle conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

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: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

7 listed buildings within 150 m

Nearest: Barn to the South East of Place Farmhouse, Grade II, 38 m away · 1 Grade I, 6 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 7 with distances

38 mBarn to the South East of Place FarmhouseGrade II
63 mChurch Farmhouse and Barn Or Farm Building Adjoining to the West, With Flanking Walls on Each Side of TheseGrade II
71 mBarn at Place Farm to the East of the Farmhouse and on the Other Side of the RoadGrade II
78 mDovecot to the South East of Church FarmhouseGrade II
96 mPlace FarmhouseGrade II
104 mThe Parish Church of St PeterGrade I
147 m4 and 5, the StreetGrade II

Historic England ↗

Registered park or garden 78 m away: Firle Place

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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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