Hambrook School Marle Place 171 Leylands Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8HY

DM/26/1905Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 27 August 2026

Council decision: No Objection

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

Proposal

Cherry Tree (OUB0) - remove to ground level. Willow Tree (OUB2) - reduce crown back to previous points, 3m. Birch Tree (OUB4 - lift crown away from wall and road sign, reduce to within the property boundary no more than 2m. Ash trees (OUBC) and (OUBT) - remove to ground level and grind out stump.

Received: 31 July 2026
Council: Mid Sussex District Council
Ward: Burgess Hill - Leylands

ReceivedReceived31 Jul
ValidatedValidated31 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date11 Sep
DecidedDecided27 Aug

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hambrook School Marle Place 171 Leylands Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8HY. Mid Sussex has handled 1,036 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Burgess Hill - Leylands. 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 8HY
Application type: Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Burgess Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated: 31 July 2026
Target decision date: 11 September 2026

Planning decision

Case officer: Emma Rivett - Ex MSDC
Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-15126861
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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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.

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.

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10 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Mid Sussex

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