1 Collyers Cottages Surrey Road Lickfold Lurgashall West Sussex GU28 9DT Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01477/LDP - Lawful Development Cert (Proposed) Refused

Proposal

Proposed lawful development - removal of existing Studio and Greenhouse and construction of 1 no. new detached outbuilding for use as a Studio and Greenhouse. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:11

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Application progress

✓

Received

16 Apr 2026

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Refused

11 Jun 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 11 Jun 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 19 Jul 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DELEGATED REPORT Report · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF DECISION Decision · 11 Jun 2026 View ↗

Application forms 3

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 15 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF CIL - FORM 1 : CIL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CIL Forms · 15 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF CIL - FORM 2 : ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITY CIL Forms · 15 Apr 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 19 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

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 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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.

Public bridleway 26 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.

SSSI 164 m away: Northpark Copse to Snapelands Copse SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Priority habitat 24 m away: Deciduous woodland; Open access land 24 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 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.