New housing in Lewes District Council
We read Lewes District Council's planning register every day. We hold 10,252 of its planning applications going back to 2008, and 50 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 60% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 60% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 10,252
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 43 | 19 | 9 |
| 2025 | 68 | 38 | 15 |
| 2024 | 79 | 51 | 19 |
| 2023 | 86 | 62 | 17 |
| 2022 | 75 | 45 | 25 |
| 2021 | 87 | 55 | 27 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 | Street Record Highbridge Lane East Chiltington East Sussex Scoping Opinion under Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) in relation to a hybrid planning application for the development of a small market… LW/26/0191 | Decided | 14 Apr 2026 |
| 375 | Asylum Wood Greenhill Way Haywards Heath West Sussex Approval of Reserved Matters following Outline planning application LW/22/0517 with all matters reserved except for access for the erection of up to 375 new homes, a two-form entry primary school, burial ground… LW/26/0262 | Decided | 26 May 2026 |
| 250 | Land At Goldbridge Farm Goldbridge Road Newick East Sussex BN8 4QP Phased outline development for up to 250 new homes (including 40% affordable), access, landscaping, open space and other associated infrastructure with all matters reserved except site access LW/25/0148 | Refused | 3 Apr 2025 |
| 180 | Land North Of Turnpike Farm The Broyle Ringmer Outline planning application (with all matters reserved other than access) for up to 180no. dwellings, including public open space, landscaping and associated works LW/25/0391 | Decided | 1 Jul 2025 |
| 180 | Land Adj To Turnpike Farm The Broyle Ringmer East Sussex EIA Screening Opinion under Regulation 5(4) of the Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2017 for residential development of up to 180 homes with access, public open space, landscaping and other works LW/25/0302 | Approved | 16 May 2025 |
| 155 | Land North Of Cooksbridge Hamsey Lane Cooksbridge East Sussex Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 for Requirement for EIA in relation to an application for up to 155no. residential dwellings LW/24/0444 | Approved | 28 Jun 2024 |
| 151 | Land At Cooksbridge Road Cooksbridge East Sussex The provision of 151 residential dwellings (Class C3) including 40% affordable housing and commercial floorspace provision (Class E), with public open space, soft and hard landscaping, play space, community orchard… LW/25/0339 | Decided | 6 Jun 2025 |
| 150 | Land South Of Green Road Wivelsfield Green East Sussex Outline application for the erection of up to 150 dwellings, with associated works, parking, landscaping, publicly accessible open space, land for education or community use, with access from Green Road and Eastern Road LW/24/0820 | At appeal | 27 Dec 2024 |
| 140 | Land At Howells Bank Farm Broyle Lane Ringmer East Sussex BN8 5AB Outline application (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale reserved), for the erection of up to 140 dwellings, and associated infrastructure including spine road with access from Broyle Lane and network of internal… LW/24/0760 | Decided | 13 Dec 2024 |
| 130 | Land East Of Lunce's Hill Haywards Heath East Sussex Erection of up to 130 dwellings, together with the change of use of an existing barn for a flexible community and/or commercial use, along with associated outdoor space and landscaping, drainage infrastructure, hard and… LW/25/0071 | Decided | 13 Mar 2025 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Lewes District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.