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West View House West View Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2LL

DM/15/3021Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 3 September 2015

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Small magnolia tree - reduce and reshape crown by removing up to 1.5 metres of growth from the outmost points of canopy.

Received
24 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lindfield
  1. Received24 Jul
  2. Validated3 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Sep
  5. Decided3 Sep

Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at West View House West View Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2LL. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Lindfield conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 133 applications across Lindfield. We hold 995 applications in total for the RH16 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Mid Sussex District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RH16 2LL
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lindfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 August 2015
Consultation expiry
28 August 2015
Target decision date
14 September 2015
Committee meeting
6 April 2019
Permission expires
6 April 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mahon Tree Care
Agent address
17 Bowers Place Crawley Down Crawley West Sussex RH10 4HY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
28 August 2015

Additional information

Documents
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: Lindfield
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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: Mid Sussex

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