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The Red Lion High Street Handcross Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6BP

DM/25/2052Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 10 September 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Yew - Cut back N and S facing crown by 2m and W facing crown by 1.2m. Crown raise to 3m over car park. T2 - Yew - Reduce height by 2.5m and cut back N and E laterals by 1.5m T3 - Yew - Reduce height by 3.5m, cut back E laterals by 1.5m, S laterals by 1.1m and W laterals by 1.5m

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Handcross And Pease Pottage
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated13 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Sep
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Red Lion High Street Handcross Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6BP. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Handcross conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Handcross And Pease Pottage. We hold 1,686 applications in total for the RH17 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
RH17 6BP
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Slaugham

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 August 2025
Target decision date
24 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Blue Cedar Tree Surgeons Ltd 15 Goodhew Close Yapton Arundel BN18 0JA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14253288
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: HandcrossPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Forge CottageOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • 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 (19)

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, 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

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© 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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