Dorothy Stringer School Loder Road Brighton BN1 6PZ

BH2026/02449Awaiting decision

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

Proposal

T1 - Ash: Remove crown, leaving the stem as a monolith at approximately 4-5m high. Reason for work: The ash stands on the boundary between Dorothy Stringer School and 7 Varndean Holt. Decay has entered the main stem, likely starting from squirrel damage, and has formed a large cavity that is weakening the tree's structure. Given its position beside a residential garden and within a school site, failure could cause harm to people or property. Reducing the tree to a 4m monolith removes the weight and wind loading from the weakened stem, while the retained stem will provide valuable standing deadwood habitat for wildlife.

Received: 2 November 2026
Council: Brighton and Hove City Council

ReceivedReceived2 Nov
ValidatedValidated2 Nov
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About this application

This is a planning application at Dorothy Stringer School Loder Road Brighton BN1 6PZ. Brighton and Hove has handled 4,551 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 2 November 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There have been 6 other applications at this address. We hold 1,684 applications in total for the BN1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: BN1 6PZ

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 November 2026

Site constraints

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

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.

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.

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6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Brighton and Hove

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