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Fairfield The Street Itchenor Chichester West Sussex PO20 7AE

25/02478/TCATree in Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 27 November 2025

Council decision: NOT TO PREPARE A TREE PRESERVATION ORDERDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Notification of intention to crown reduce by 35% (all round) and crown lift to 2.7m (above ground level) on 1 no. Willow tree (T1).

Received
16 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
The Witterings
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target4 Dec
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Fairfield The Street Itchenor Chichester West Sussex PO20 7AE. Chichester has handled 534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Chichester's typical decision time. The site is in the West Itchenor conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 128 applications across The Witterings. We hold 2,827 applications in total for the PO20 postcode area.

48% of trees applications at Chichester District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PO20 7AE
Application type
Tree in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Itchenor

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 October 2025
Consultation expiry
19 November 2025
Consultation start
28 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
19 November 2025
Last date for comments
19 November 2025
Target decision date
4 December 2025
Permission expires
27 November 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arbtechnic
Agent address
Old Malthouse Cottage Chichester PO20 8QL

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14413946
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: West Itchenor
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Wat…Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • National Landscape (AONB): Chichester Harbour
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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, national parks, 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

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© 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.

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