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Burgess Hill School For Girls Keymer Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0EG

DM/25/2475Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 30 October 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

T 278: Oak - Reduce crown by 2m, height of 17m, lateral branch lift of 9m. T 284: Copper Beech - fell. T 296: Oak - Reduce branch from tear out wound by 2m, leaving finish length of 9 m. Reduce back branch to match.

Received
1 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burgess Hill - Franklands
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated1 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Nov
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Burgess Hill School For Girls Keymer Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0EG. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Silverdale Road and Birchwood Grove Road conservation area. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Burgess Hill - Franklands. We hold 747 applications in total for the RH15 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
RH15 0EG
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burgess Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 October 2025
Target decision date
12 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
MJC Tree Services Limited 39 School Road West Wellow Romsey SO51 6AR

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14374393
Documents
11

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: Silverdale Road and Birchwood Grove Road
  • 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.

Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    10 Sep

    Revision to hours of operation of floodlighting, which seeks a permanent extension to the hours of use of the…

    ApprovedApplicationDM/26/2226
  2. 2026
    10 Sep

    Revision to hours of operation of floodlighting, which seeks a permanent extension to the hours of use of the…

    PendingApplicationDM/26/2225
  3. 2026
    27 Jul

    Proposed external alterations of Oakdene to include the formation of a new principal entrance to the south…

    PendingLawful Development Certificate -ProposedDM/26/1851
  4. 2026
    3 Jun

    Common Oak (T2) , Sycamore (T3),Sycamore (T4), Ash (T5), Group tree (G6), Group Trees (G7), Ash (T8), Group…

    PendingTree SurgeryDM/26/1379
  5. 2025
    3 Nov

    T296 Oak - Reduce long advantageous branch growing from top of large historical tear-out wound, by up to 2m…

    PendingTrees in a Conservation AreaDM/25/2822
  6. 2025
    7 May

    Various works to trees as detailed in accompanying tree schedule. 0282 Western red cedar, fell.

    ApprovedTree SurgeryDM/25/1196

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