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Rixons Lewes Road Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7DP

DM/25/3051Tree SurgeryApproved

Approved on 20 January 2026

Council decision: PermissionDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

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Proposal

Beech tree - reduce canopy by 3m. Yew tree - reduce sides by 1.5m Lime tree - reduce back to previous pollard points, approx 2m.

Received
28 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lindfield Rural And High Weald
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 Jan
  5. Decided20 Jan

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Rixons Lewes Road Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7DP. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Horsted Keynes conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 134 applications across Lindfield Rural And High Weald. 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 7DP
Application type
Tree Surgery
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Horsted Keynes

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025
Target decision date
23 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
DPH Tree Surgery 39A Parklands

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Horsted Keynes
  • Listed building: Grade II: RixonsOn 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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© 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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