Fulking Farmhouse The Street Fulking Henfield West Sussex BN5 9LX
Approved on 2 January 2014
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Leyland Cypress hedge in rear garden by swimming pool - reduce the height to previous pruning points and trim face and ends hard back. Fell the first ten trees to a height of 1.5m/2.0m at the western most end of the hedge line.
- Received
- 19 November 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Hurstpierpoint And Downs Ward
- ReceivedReceived19 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Nov
- Consult.Consultation17 Dec
- TargetTarget Date31 Dec
- DecidedDecided2 Jan
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Fulking Farmhouse The Street Fulking Henfield West Sussex BN5 9LX. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Fulking conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,072 applications in total for the BN5 postcode area.
99% of trees applications at South Downs were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- BN5 9LX
- Application type
- Tree in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Fulking Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 November 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 20 December 2013
- Consultation start
- 26 November 2013
- Consultation end
- 17 December 2013
- Neighbour consultation start
- 21 November 2013
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 December 2013
- Last date for comments
- 20 December 2013
- Target decision date
- 31 December 2013
- Permission expires
- 2 January 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- RW Green Limited 10 Upper Stoneham Farm Lewes East Sussex BN8 5RH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 29 November 2013
- Advertisement expiry
- 20 December 2013
- Site notice end
- 12 December 2013
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
- Constraints
- 17
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Fulking
- National park: South Downs
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and 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 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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Planning history at this site
7 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20244 Mar
T2 - False Acacia - reduce to old pollard points (3 metres) T3 - False Acacia - reduce to old pollard points…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/24/00926/TCA - 201927 Aug
T2, T3 & T4 - 3 No. False Acacia - reduce to pollard 1 metre above existing hedge - by up to 5 metres.T5 and…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/19/04153/TCA - 201831 Jul
T3 - Sycamore - rear garden - fell to ground level - hollow stem and decay evident at base on northern stem…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/18/04071/TCA - 20185 Feb
T4 - Monterey Cypress - remove hanging branches and storm damage and prune canopy back on south side by 2.5…
ApprovedTree Preservation OrderSDNP/18/00669/TPO - 201710 Mar
T1 - Leylandii hedge - trim face side hard, keeping greenery and reduce top to previous pruning points (by no…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/17/01287/TCA - 20168 Jan
T1-Sycamore-twin stem -Reduce selective heavy branches by up to 1.5 metres. T2-Monterey Cypress - Remove…
ApprovedTree Preservation OrderSDNP/16/00159/TPO - 20063 Feb
Lift canopy of Sycamore (T1) to height of first main fork.
ApprovedTree Surgery06/00260/TREE
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