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The Clock House 171 High Street Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2RE

DM/15/3288Tree SurgeryApproved

Approved on 7 October 2015

Council decision: PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

(T1) and (T2) Yews- Reduce by 25% (2 - 2.5 metres) to stimulate new growth to form and to allow more light into other trees and shrubs.

Received
11 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lindfield
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Clock House 171 High Street Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2RE. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Lindfield conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 2RE
Application type
Tree Surgery
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lindfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2015
Consultation expiry
2 October 2015
Target decision date
27 October 2015
Committee meeting
5 April 2019
Permission expires
5 April 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Colwood Land Care Ltd 2 Blackmores Green Road Wivelsfield Green RH17 7PZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
2 October 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04415765
Documents
8

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
  • Listed building: Grade II: Clock HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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 (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

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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