Chyngton Brooks Eastbourne Road Seaford East Sussex Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/00912/FTP - Footpath Application Application in Progress

Proposal

Stopping up of footpath 27b for a total length of 1520 metres Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
2 Mar 2026
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Committee
16 Jul 2026
Decision
Expected by 22 Jun 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 7 Oct 2026; it is now day 219.

Planning committee

Decided by South Downs Planning Committee on 16 Jul 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

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

  • Members were advised that objections could pass the decision to the Secretary of State and that completion certification would follow the new path being ready.
  • A Ramblers’ Association representative spoke against the application, while a National Trust representative spoke in support.
  • The committee resolved to make the order and begin consultation, subject to two other approvals.
Read how the committee decided The proposed footpath stopping-up, public speakers’ views, members’ concerns and the committee’s decision.

Source: Plota analysis of South Downs's committee minutes of 16 Jul 2026.

Documents 7

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 2 Mar 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 6

PDF ACCESS RESPONSE Consultation Responses · 26 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF SDNPA - RIGHTS OF WAY Consultation Responses · 26 Mar 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 25 Mar 2026 View ↗
PDF RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION Consultation Responses · 20 Mar 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 8 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 11

Local nature reserve: Seaford Head
2 designations overlap here. A habitats assessment is needed.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
SSSI: Seaford to Beachy Head SSSI
Natural England must be consulted on work that may affect it.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
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.
Shoreham to Eastbourne across the site
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Heritage coast: Sussex
A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.
Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.
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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 6
An estimated 30% or more 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 ↗
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs; Priority habitat 7 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · 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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Important details

Council
South Downs
Application type
Footpath Application
Received
2 Mar 2026
Validated
2 Mar 2026
Ward
Seaford East Ward
Parish
Seaford Town Council
Case officer
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Target decision
22 Jun 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 219, past the statutory target. 100% of other in South Downs are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 4 Oct 2026.

Day 219163 days past the 56-day target
100%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
17decided in the last year

Plota live figures for other decided by South Downs in the last twelve months, from validation. South Downs decision record →

Public comments

3comments received
2 objecting1 supporting

67% object · below the UK average of 74%

3 neighbours consulted · Last counted 4 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
22 Jun 2026
Env. assessment
No