The Parish Council receives notification of all planning applications affecting our villages that are submitted to the South Downs National Park (SDNP) based in Midhurst, the planning authority for our area. They will determine these planning applications. The ED&F Parish Council is a statutory consultee which means that any planning application submitted to SDNP will be referred to us for comment. Our views carry weight as we are the ‘voice on the ground’ but although the SDNP are obliged to take account of our views they are not obliged to accept them. Both the Parish Council and SDNP will take the Local Plan into consideration as part of the planning application review process.
You can search all planning applications here.
The Parish Council has delegated authority to its Planning Committee and this meets on the third Tuesday of each month to consider planning applications and consider other issues referred to it by the Council. As with all Council and Committee meetings the public are very welcome to attend and comment on items on the meeting agenda in the public session which is held at the start of every meeting. The Committee will consider applications and decide to have no objection, object giving reasons, or submit a conditional no objection suggesting what other factors need to be taken into account. The Terms of Reference of the Planning Committee are to be found in our policies and procedures section.
The Planning Committee Agenda is posted on the Council's noticeboards and on this website a few days before the next meeting and the Minutes of the Planning Committee are published on this website too.
Some current applications can be found below, but refer to our planning committee minutes for all applications that we have considered.
Change of use of existing annexe to holiday let including an extension to a side elevation and associated hard and soft landscaping