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Old Greenfields 32 Church Road Newick East Sussex BN8 4JX

TW/20/0060/TCAWork to Trees (Conservation Area)Approved

Approved on 16 October 2020

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Sycamores as shown in Sketch plan 1. We have two lovely large sycamores at the end of our garden that have now grown very big and are not only fighting for space themselves but also crowding out other trees around them. In addition, the trees overgrow the road through our village and our opposite neighbor is also very worried that during high winds the height and size of the trees may mean that they could blow down and damage her house. There is also an overhead high voltage cable that is now overgrown by the branches of both trees overhanging Church Road. We are very keen to protect the health of these trees and the trees around them but also to ensure they are safe and manageable. To enable this, we would like to reduce the overall height and width of the two sycamores by around 50%. This work will be carried out by Mr. Fred Synes, a professional tree surgeon.

Received
20 July 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Newick
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target31 Aug
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 88 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Greenfields 32 Church Road Newick East Sussex BN8 4JX. Lewes has handled 355 applications of this type. This one was decided in 88 days, 5 weeks longer than Lewes's typical decision time. The site is in the Newick (Church Road) conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Newick. 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 4JX
Application type
Work to Trees (Conservation Area)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newick

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2020
Target decision date
31 August 2020
Decision issued
1 February 2021
Permission expires
1 February 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08898522
Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

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, 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

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Source: Lewes

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