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1 The Barn House Firle Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 2HJ

TW/20/0096/TPOWork to Trees (Conservation Area)Approved

Approved on 4 March 2021

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

1no. Conifer - Removal

Received
31 October 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Seaford North
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.16 Dec
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided4 Mar

Decided in 124 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 1 The Barn House Firle Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 2HJ. Lewes has handled 355 applications of this type. This one was decided in 124 days, 10 weeks longer than Lewes's typical decision time. The site is in the Seaford (East Blatchington) conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Seaford North. We hold 1,428 applications in total for the BN25 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
BN25 2HJ
Application type
Work to Trees (Conservation Area)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaford

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2020
Consultation expiry
16 December 2020
Consultation start
18 November 2020
Consultation end
16 December 2020
Last date for comments
16 December 2020
Target decision date
12 December 2020
Decision issued
30 March 2021
Permission expires
30 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Sussex Tree Fella
Agent address
9 Greenwell Close Seaford East Sussex England BN25 3SG

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
7

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: Seaford (East Blatchington)
  • 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.

Source: Lewes

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