Outline application for eight self-build or custom homes in West Sussex village
A company has submitted an outline planning application for eight self-build or custom build homes in Crawley Down.
The application is for land to the south of Burleigh Lane.
BKJS Developments Ltd applied to Mid Sussex District Council, via the agent DMH Stallard LLP, to build the dwellings with all matters reserved except for access from Burleigh Lane. The application is also for drainage and ancillary works.
People can view the documents at pa.midsussex.gov.uk/online-applications by using the reference DM/25/3191.
The planning statement by DMH Stallard said the land is is located on the south-eastern edge of Crawley Down.
It said: “To the east, the application site adjoins a single dwelling with annex building, hedgerows. The southern boundary is formed of a tree belt beyond which is pastureland with a sand school. To the west is further pastureland located between the application site and the properties located on the eastern side of Sandhill Lane.”
The site is 1.77 hectares and the application is also for 27 new car parking spaces and 16 new cycle spaces.
The planning statement said the outline planning permission is for six five-bedroom, two-storey houses and two single-storey, three-bedroom units. It said: “Access to the site is proposed to be fixed at this stage with the remaining matters reserved for future consideration. Given the nature of the proposal, it is anticipated that separate reserved matters applications would be submitted by each individual occupier of the plots.”
The planning statement said the scale of the homes has been designed to be ‘sympathetic to the surrounding context’ and ‘references the larger existing detached houses located on both Burleigh Lane and Sandhill Lane’.
Its conclusion said: “There are considerable benefits associated with the scheme including the provision of eight new dwellings which is a planning benefit that substantial weight should be given to.”
It said: “Other benefits include the delivery of social and community benefits in terms of the financial contributions towards off-site affordable housing provision and other infrastructure contributions.”
It added: “Given the nature of the self-build / custom build units, the development will also be more likely to deliver benefits in terms of the provision of local jobs in the short term through the construction of the units that will assist the local economy.”