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Ockenden Garden Lodge Ockenden Lane Cuckfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5LD

DM/25/2471Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 5 November 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Cypress- Fell, T2 Bay- Fell, T3 Bay- Fell, T4 Yew- Fell, T5 Beech - Reduce by 2m and raise the canopy by 3m as loss of light and overbearing, T6 Elder - Fell as compromising the wall.

Received
29 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cuckfield, Bolney And Ansty
  1. Received29 Sep
  2. Validated2 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided5 Nov

Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ockenden Garden Lodge Ockenden Lane Cuckfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5LD. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Cuckfield conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 136 applications across Cuckfield, Bolney And Ansty. 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 5LD
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cuckfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 October 2025
Target decision date
13 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Cedarwood Tree Care 14 Kilnwood Avenue Burgess Hill RH150ZE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14365878
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Cuckfield
  • 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

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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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