Planning is often controversial
What‘s the Parish Council’s role?
Parish Councils play a limited part in the current planning process. Like others, Barcombe PC is a statutary consultee in most (but not all) cases, so receives relevant documents from Lewes District Council. After local consultation and formal discussion, the PC can vote on an application before recommending a course of action to LDC; the recommendation will be taken into consideration by the case Planning Officer, but the weight given to it will vary. If the application is passed to LDC’s Planning Committee for decision – a body made up from local councillors, not planners – the Case Officer’s recommendation may or may not be followed.
General information
Help and useful documents
Applications: find and comment
Read or download guides on how to view a planning application online, and how to comment effectively on it.
Planning-related documents
Neighbourhood Plan 2015-2018
After the Barcombe Neighbourhood Plan was shelved in 2018, Chairman Alan Marler summed up the PC’s view of the process in our area: read it here.
Like to know details of work done towards the original NP? These are the documents: Neighbourhood Plan 2015