Executive Committee:- There was a meeting of the Executive Committee on Wednesday 26th November 2025.
Relevant items discussed:-
Planning Committee: Despite our objection to the proposed redevelopment of the annexe to the rear of the White Hart Hotel. (Ref: SDNP/25/00496/FUL), the application was approved by the SDNPA’s Planning Committee.
Planning in Lewes. Without any prior consultation, the SDNPA has announced that the Contract with Lewes District Council to assess minor planning applications in Lewes will NOT BE RENEWED when the current contact ends on the 31st March 2026. On the 08th December, a letter was sent to Sion McGeever, (the CEO of the South Downs National Park), expressing the Society’s dissatisfaction at the way Planning in Lewes is being handled by the park authority.
Decisions: From 11/11/25 to 27/11/25:
The following SNPA decisions were available online:
SDNP/25/02763/FUL: Southdown Sports Club, Cockshut Road: Creation of 2no padel courts and the re-siting of 2no tennis courts together with floodlighting. Approved.
SDNP/25/02990/HOUS: 9 Caburn Crescent: Hip-to-cable roof extension with rear dormer and loft conversion (Amended Plans). Approved.
SDNP/25/03228/HOUS: Fairlight, Cuilfail: Conversion from 3no bed bungalow to 5no bed house with erection of new storey. Approved.
New Planning Applications:
The Committee examined the following applications and had no observations to make:
| SDNP/25/02917/FUL: 17 Tanners Brook: | Installation of solar panels to rear roof of property. |
| SDNP/25/04113/HOUS: 43 New Road: | Roof lights to front rear slope with a rear dormer. |
| SDNP/25/04402/HOUS: 132 South Street: | Replacement of existing white upvc windows and rear doors with black aluminium framed doors and windows, and erection of clay tiled roof canopy along the rear elevation. |
| SDNP/25/04454/HOUS: 39 Morris Road: | Replacement double glazed sash windows. |
