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Crofters Wood 17 Heather Lane Worthing West Sussex BN13 3BU

AWDM/0568/25Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for consent under Worthing Tree Preservation Order No.2 of 1991 to reduce crown height by up to 1 metre and reduce radial spread by up to 1 to 1.5 metres, 1.5 metres only on the widest most protruding limbs, Pine tree T2.

Received
2 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Salvington
  1. Received2 May
  2. Validated3 Jun
  3. Consult.26 Jun
  4. Target29 Jul
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Crofters Wood 17 Heather Lane Worthing West Sussex BN13 3BU. Adur and Worthing has handled 407 applications of this type. This one was decided in 96 days, 6 weeks longer than Adur and Worthing's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Salvington. We hold 304 applications in total for the BN13 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Adur District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BN13 3BU
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 June 2025
Consultation expiry
26 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
5 June 2025
Neighbour consultation end
26 June 2025
Last date for comments
26 June 2025
Target decision date
29 July 2025
Permission expires
6 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
D&T Tree Surgery
Agent address
62 West Way Hove BN3 8LR

Planning decision

Case officer
Jeremy Sergeant
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13989016
Documents
6
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Adur and Worthing

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