16A The Avenue Lewes East Sussex BN7 1QT
Approved on 28 May 2014
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
1 x Copper Beech (G2 of the Order) - Remove approx. 4 or 5 pendulous branches to crown lift over garden, crown thin by 15-20%, remove deadwood
- Received
- 8 May 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Castle Ward
- Agent
- R W Green Ltd
- ReceivedReceived8 May
- ValidatedValidated8 May
- Consult.Consultation22 May
- TargetTarget Date3 Jul
- DecidedDecided28 May
Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 16A The Avenue Lewes East Sussex BN7 1QT. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Lewes Castle Ward. We hold 4,321 applications in total for the BN7 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
- BN7 1QT
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 May 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 22 May 2014
- Last date for comments
- 22 May 2014
- Target decision date
- 3 July 2014
- Decision issued
- 29 May 2014
- Permission expires
- 29 May 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- R W Green Ltd
- Agent address
- Unit 10 Upper Stoneham Farm Lewes East Sussex BN8 5RH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 8 May 2014
- Advertisement expiry
- 22 May 2014
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Lewes
- 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 (20)
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 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
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202217 Nov
1x Beech - Reduce and reshape back to previous points of reduction by a maximum of 3m
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/22/05358/TCA - 201929 Jan
T1 Beech -Remove 5 low later branches overhanging garden .Crown reduce remainder by approx 1.5mT2-No…
Split DecisionTree Preservation OrderSDNP/19/00445/TCA
Source: South Downs
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