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4 Oak Way Ifold Loxwood Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 0RU

25/02520/TPATree Planning ApplicationApproved

Approved on 13 February 2026

Council decision: PERMITDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown lift by removing lowest 10 no. limbs (including limbs growing towards south-west corner of the property) on 1 no. Oak tree (T17). Remove 2 no. branches up to main branch at 7m on west sector, reduce lower main branch at 7m on west sector by removing the lower part of branch and reducing rest of limb by up to 2.5m and removing epicormic growth from the branch on 1 no. Oak tree (T18). Remove up to 7 no. small branches up to 12m (above ground level), reducing lowest western main branch at 7m by removing lower part of branch by 4.5m back to main branch and reducing the rest of the limb by up to 2.5m on 1 no. Oak tree (T19). Crown lift by up to 12m (above ground level) up to crown break on 1 no. Oak tree (T20). Crown reduce by up to 4m (height and widths) (as one crown) on 2 no. Oak trees (T19 and T20) 1 no. Oak tree (T20). Remove 4 no. lower branches and epicormic growth back to the stem on 1 no. Oak tree (T21). Fell 1 no. Hawthorn tree (T22). All trees within Woodland W subject to PS/97/00812/TPO.

Received
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Loxwood
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.10 Dec
  4. Target6 Jan
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 94 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 4 Oak Way Ifold Loxwood Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 0RU. Chichester has handled 534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 8 weeks longer than Chichester's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 107 applications across Loxwood. We hold 1,272 applications in total for the RH14 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
RH14 0RU
Application type
Tree Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Plaistow And Ifold

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2025
Consultation expiry
10 December 2025
Consultation start
18 November 2025
Consultation end
10 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
10 December 2025
Last date for comments
19 December 2025
Target decision date
6 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
SD Tree Care
Agent address
Warren Court, Bucks Green Rudgwick, Horsham RH12 3JJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14426140
Comments
0
Documents
18
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Ancient woodlandPart of the site
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

Associated applications

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    21 Oct

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  2. 2025
    21 Oct

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