Royal Pavilion Gardens Pavilion Buildings Brighton BN1 1EE Data via plota.co.uk

Decided BH2025/01627
Date received
30 Jun 2025
Date validated
30 Jun 2025
Postcode
BN1 1EE

Description

Application to vary condition 4 of planning permission that required an Ecological Design, Management and Monitoring Strategy (EDMMS) including to remove the provision of a minimum 10% biodiversity net gain within a 30-year period. Data via plota.co.uk

Last checked

Planning committee

Decided by Brighton and Hove Planning Committee on 1 Oct 2025. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved unanimously

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

  • Members accepted the condition change as viable, with heritage improvements central to the project and refusal putting funding at risk.
  • The committee unanimously granted planning permission, subject to the stated conditions and informatives.
Read how the committee decided The proposed condition change, site issues, member debate, unanimous vote and final decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Brighton and Hove's committee minutes of 1 Oct 2025.

Associated applications 16

Site constraints 8

Registered park or garden: The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Valley Gardens 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.
Council document ↗
Heritage at risk: The Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Historic England ↗
31 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: The Corn Exchange and Dome Theatre, Grade I, 60 m away · 2 Grade I, 5 Grade II*, 23 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 31 with distances
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; Inside the Brighton and Hove built-up area; Air quality management area 61 m away: Brighton and Hove AQMA 1.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 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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Brighton and Hove
Planning Authority Score
4.3/10
Below average
#185 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Brighton and Hove is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #238 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
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Brighton and Hove decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
90%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #107 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #70 of 296
50%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #238 of 296
46%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #200 of 296
71%
Minor dwellings approved
189 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
70%
Change of use approved
63 decided
1,719
Total decisions
176 refused in the year to March 2026