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The Gatehouse St Georges Mill Lane North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4EG

TW/17/0080/TPOWork to Trees (TPO)Approved

Approved on 20 September 2017

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Horse Chestnut T3 of the Order - Fell. Reason: Infected with bleeding canker, causing crown dieback and branch fractures. Safety risk over footpath and field.

Received
15 August 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Chailey & Wivelsfield
  1. Received15 Aug
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.20 Sep
  4. Target10 Oct
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Gatehouse St Georges Mill Lane North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4EG. Lewes has handled 355 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lewes's typical decision time. The site is in the Chailey (St George's) conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 postcode area.

89% of trees applications at Lewes District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BN8 4EG
Application type
Work to Trees (TPO)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chailey
District
Tree Preservation Order (No. 3) 1996

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2017
Consultation expiry
20 September 2017
Consultation end
20 September 2017
Last date for comments
27 October 2017
Target decision date
10 October 2017
Permission expires
20 September 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
9

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: Chailey (St George's)
  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    27 Apr

    T1 - Ash - Fell to ground level

    ApprovedApplicationTW/26/0027/TCA

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