1 Mount Cottages Castle Banks Lewes East Sussex BN7 1UY
Approved on 5 June 2015
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
1x Holm Oak - trim regrowth back to previous pruning points to reshape.
- Received
- 22 April 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Castle Ward
- ReceivedReceived22 Apr
- ValidatedValidated22 Apr
- Consult.Consultation26 May
- TargetTarget Date3 Jun
- DecidedDecided5 Jun
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 1 Mount Cottages Castle Banks Lewes East Sussex BN7 1UY. 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 Lewes conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Lewes Castle Ward. We hold 4,320 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 1UY
- Application type
- Tree in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
- District
- Lewes Conservation Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 April 2015
- Last date for comments
- 26 May 2015
- Target decision date
- 3 June 2015
- Permission expires
- 5 June 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- R W Green
- Agent address
- 10 Upper Stoneham Farm Lewes East Sussex BN8 5RH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 3
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202621 Oct
T1 Holm Oak - Reduce and reshape crown by approximately 2m all over
PendingApplicationSDNP/26/04068/TCA - 202621 Oct
T1 Holm Oak - Reduce and reshape crown by approximately 2m all over
PendingApplicationSDNP/26/04068/TPO - 20258 Nov
Discharge of Condition 6 (details of windows) related to planning approval SDNP/24/05116/HOUS
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsSDNP/25/04914/DCOND - 202510 Oct
Discharge of Condition 3 (solar panel details) related to Planning Approval SDNP/24/05116/HOUS
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsSDNP/25/04203/DCOND - 202411 Dec
Installation of solar panelling to rear elevation and air source heat pump, replacement of flat roofs with…
ApprovedHouseholderSDNP/24/05116/HOUS
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