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62 St Pancras Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1JG

SDNP/15/03771/TCATree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 7 September 2015

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

1 x Purple Plum - Thin heavy scaffold branches in crown and tip. Prune all over by 1.5 - 2m1 x Yew - Reduce and reshape west side by 0.5m, north side by 3.5m, east side by 2m and south side by 1m.1 x Purple Plum - Reduce crown all over by 1.5m

Received
28 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Priory Ward
Agent
RW Green Limited
  1. Received28 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.25 Aug
  4. Target8 Sep
  5. Decided7 Sep

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 62 St Pancras Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1JG. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Lewes Priory 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 1JG
Application type
Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council
District
Lewes Conservation Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2015
Last date for comments
25 August 2015
Target decision date
8 September 2015
Permission expires
7 September 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
RW Green Limited
Agent address
10 Upperstoneham Farm Lewes BN8 5RH

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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© 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.

© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2019
    13 Mar

    1no. Yew Tree - Reduce all over by 0.5m

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/19/01287/TCA

Source: South Downs

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