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Four Acre Nursery Cooks Lane Southbourne PO10 8LQ

Refused South Downs National Park 20/02987/OUT Outline Application

Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.

Proposal

Outline application for 40 dwellings with all matters reserved apart from access, layout and scale with associated new access roads, parking and turning areas, erection of a wastewater pumping station, the provision of surface water drainage features, amendment to the existing site access and works to Cooks Lane including the provision of a new footway on the northern side.

As published by the council, reference 20/02987/OUT

Application record

Reference
20/02987/OUT
Type
Outline Application
Status
Refuse
Decision
Refused As published: REFUSE
Received
18 Nov 2020
Validated
1 Dec 2020
Decided
6 May 2021
Ward
Southbourne
Parish
Southbourne
Decision by
Delegated Decision
Postcode
PO10 8LQ

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 18 Nov 2020

    Received by South Downs National Park

  2. 1 Dec 2020

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 6 May 2021

    Decision issued: REFUSE

  4. 28 Sep 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Who's behind it

Company information only, from the register and Companies House

Southern Planning Ltd Agent, a planning consultancy

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Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

107 documents on file for this application

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What this refusal means

South Downs National Park refused this application for the reasons on the decision notice; only the applicant can appeal, and refused schemes often return in revised form. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

About outline applications

An outline application tests the principle of developing a site, holding back details such as appearance and landscaping as reserved matters for later approval. More in our guide to planning application types.

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