4 De Montfort Road Lewes BN7 1SP
Approved on 7 December 2017
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1 - 1x Lime - reduce and reshape crown by 1.2 metres and crown lift by up to 1.8 metres
- Received
- 21 October 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- Agent
- R W Green Limited
- ReceivedReceived21 Oct
- ValidatedValidated25 Oct
- Consult.Consultation8 Nov
- TargetTarget Date6 Dec
- DecidedDecided7 Dec
Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 4 De Montfort Road Lewes BN7 1SP. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 1SP
- Application type
- Tree in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
- District
- Lewes Conservation Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 October 2017
- Last date for comments
- 8 November 2017
- Target decision date
- 6 December 2017
- Permission expires
- 7 December 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- R W Green Limited
- Agent address
- Unit 10 Upper Stoneham Farm Lewes BN8 5RH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-06477813
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 8
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 (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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Source: South Downs
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