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15 Chaucer Road Worthing West Sussex BN11 4PB

AWDM/1145/25Work to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 12 January 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Section 211 Notice under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to reduce crown height by up to 3 metres, reduce radial spread by up to 0.5 to 1 metre Bay T1; reduce crown height and radial spread to previous points Holm Oak trees T3 and T4; and remove deadwood Hawthorn T2.

Received
9 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Heene
  1. Received9 Sep
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.9 Oct
  4. Target21 Oct
  5. Decided12 Jan

Decided in 125 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 15 Chaucer Road Worthing West Sussex BN11 4PB. Adur and Worthing has handled 407 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 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 70 applications across Heene. We hold 636 applications in total for the BN11 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
BN11 4PB
Application type
Work to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2025
Consultation expiry
9 October 2025
Last date for comments
9 October 2025
Target decision date
21 October 2025

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
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
9 October 2025
Site notice start
18 September 2025
Site notice end
9 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14315513
Documents
4
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Shakespeare Road
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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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