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Russet House 46 Firle Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 2HU

TW/22/0080/TPOWork to Trees (TPO)Approved

Approved on 14 December 2022

Proposal

5 large Sycamore trees; Tree 1 (rear garden) reduce length of lowest north facing branches closest to the building by 4-5 metres (at 5 metres above ground) with 2-3 metres reduction for higher branches (up to 10 metres above ground) Tree 2 (front garden) reduce length of branch over road at 5 metres above ground by 5 metres Tree 3-5 Crown lift to max 4-5 metres from the ground (15% of branches)

Received
12 July 2022
Public comments
1
Ward
Seaford North
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated26 Sep
  3. Consult.17 Oct
  4. Target21 Nov
  5. Decided14 Dec

Decided in 79 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Russet House 46 Firle Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 2HU. Lewes has handled 355 applications of this type. This one was decided in 155 days, 14 weeks longer than Lewes's typical decision time. 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 2HU
Application type
Work to Trees (TPO)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaford
District
TPO (No 6) 1989 - 3852/0207

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 September 2022
Consultation expiry
21 October 2022
Consultation start
3 October 2022
Consultation end
17 October 2022
Neighbour consultation start
7 October 2022
Neighbour consultation end
21 October 2022
Last date for comments
21 October 2022
Target decision date
21 November 2022
Decision issued
21 December 2022
Permission expires
21 December 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19
Constraints
41

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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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