Allotment Gardens Paddock Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1UU
Approved on 26 October 2015
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
2 x Pear x 2 (Plot 7b) - Reduce trees height by up to 40% 1 x Lime coppice on edge of plot number 4 shown on plan as T24 - Reduce back to main stem 3 x lowest branches overhanging allotment 1 x Ash tree on boundary next to above shown on plan as T25 - Reduce low overextended branch overhanging allotment by up to 6m
- Received
- 14 September 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Castle Ward
- ReceivedReceived14 Sep
- ValidatedValidated14 Sep
- Consult.Consultation15 Oct
- TargetTarget Date26 Oct
- DecidedDecided26 Oct
Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Allotment Gardens Paddock Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1UU. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 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 1UU
- Application type
- Tree in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
- District
- Lewes Conservation Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 September 2015
- Last date for comments
- 15 October 2015
- Target decision date
- 26 October 2015
- Permission expires
- 26 October 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Bonnys wood
- Agent address
- 50 Houndean Rise Lewes East Sussex BN7 1EH United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-04490747
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 8
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
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201824 Dec
T5 Apple - Crown Reduction of height and spread by 2 metres.As per tree report by Broad Oak Tree Consultants…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/18/06545/TCA - 201615 Feb
1x Prunus - remove
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/16/00733/TCA - 201519 May
T5 on plan - Apple > Reduce by 40%T6 on plan - Pear > Reduce height by one third
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/15/02482/TCA
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