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19C Preston Park Avenue Brighton BN1 6HL

BH2024/01574Treeworks in Conservation Area (Lopping)Approved

Approved on 10 July 2024

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

Proposal

Mature Yew Tree in neighbours' garden (number 19d Preston Park Avenue, BN1 6HL).A small section of our neighbours' mature yew tree comes across the boundary wall onto our property. It has now reached the house and, as well as cutting out light from our side passage and the side windows of our house, it is starting to interfere with the guttering. In order to prevent any possible damage to our property, we would like permission to cut it back to the boundary wall. This would reduce the overall crown by less than 20%.Our neighbour is happy for us to have the work carried out. He has said he will be applying to have the tree on his side reduced in the Autumn, at which point he would be happy to have the work done on our side too, but we don't feel we can afford to wait that long. We are about to have the outside of our house painted, and the overhang will prevent access.

Received
26 June 2024
Ward
Preston Park
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided10 Jul

Decided in 14 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 19C Preston Park Avenue Brighton BN1 6HL. Brighton and Hove has handled 412 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 7 weeks quicker than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. The site is in the Preston Park conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Preston Park. 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 6HL
Application type
Treeworks in Conservation Area (Lopping)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2024
Target decision date
7 August 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Preston Park
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

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: Brighton and Hove

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