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

TW/26/0021/TPOWork to Trees (TPO)Approved

Approved on 27 April 2026

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Proposal

T1 & T2 - Beech - reduce height by a maximum of 4 metres and reduce lateral branches by a maximum of 1.5 metres and Crown thinning by 20% - to manage crown size and density T3 - Beech - reduce height by a maximum of 3 metres and reduce lateral branches by a maximum of 1.5 metres Crown thinning by 10% - to manage crown size and density T4 - Elm - to remove 1x lower limb/stem (overextended over road), cut back to main stem.

Received
24 March 2026
Ward
Seaford North
Agent
Arb Bros Tree Services
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.21 Apr
  4. Target19 May
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 2 The Barn House Firle Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 2HJ. Lewes has handled 355 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lewes's typical decision time. The site is in the Seaford (East Blatchington) conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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 (TPO)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaford
District
3852/0364 - TPO (No.35) 1997

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2026
Consultation expiry
21 April 2026
Consultation start
7 April 2026
Consultation end
21 April 2026
Last date for comments
21 April 2026
Target decision date
19 May 2026
Decision issued
30 April 2026
Permission expires
30 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arb Bros Tree Services
Agent address
24 Harebeating Crescent Hailsham BN27 1JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14785577
Documents
14
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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