Balfour Primary School Balfour Road Brighton Brighton & Hove BN1 6NE
Approved on 31 January 2024
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Proposal
Western End of Playground T1 - Elm Group Reduce crowns by 2 to 3m. Ensuring an overhanging growth to neighbours is cut back to boundary. Middle Section G2 - Sycamore x 3 Re-pollard back to previous points. Eastern End of Playground G3 - Elm Group Reduce crowns to shape and balance. Ensuring any overhanging growth to neighbours is cut back to boundary. Western End of Car Park T4 - Larch Reduce crown by 1 to 1.5m. Ensuring any overhanging growth to neighbours is cut back to boundary. Middle Section of Car Park T5 - Elm Crown lift to 5.5m. Provision of MEWP for 2 days ALL ITEMS INCLUDING REMOVING ARISING DEBRIS, LEAVING SITE CLEAN AND TIDY.
- Received
- 19 December 2023
- ReceivedReceived19 Dec
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date13 Feb
- DecidedDecided31 Jan
Decided in 43 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at Balfour Primary School Balfour Road Brighton Brighton & Hove BN1 6NE. Brighton and Hove has handled 412 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 3 weeks quicker than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,684 applications in total for the BN1 postcode area.
96% of trees applications at Brighton and Hove City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- BN1 6NE
- Application type
- Treeworks on Preserved Trees (Lopping)
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 December 2023
- Target decision date
- 13 February 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Connick Tree Care
- Agent address
- New Pond Farm Woodhatch Road RH27QH United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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