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County Library Tower Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1QJ

26/02009/TCAApproved

Approved on 16 October 2026

Council decision: NOT TO PREPARE A TREE PRESERVATION ORDER

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Notification of intention to crown reduce back to previous pruning points and install cobra bracing between both codominant stems at approx. 10m (above ground level) on 1 no. Alnus tree (0UJM).

Received
17 September 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 30 October 2026
Ward
Chichester Central
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.13 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 29 days

About this application

This is a planning application at County Library Tower Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1QJ. Chichester has handled 6,459 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Chichester's typical decision time. The site is in the Chichester conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,437 applications in total for the PO19 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
PO19 1QJ
Parish
Chichester

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2026
Consultation end
13 October 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Henry Whitby

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Chichester
  • Listed building: Grade II: The CottageOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Wat…Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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.

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