6 Grange Road Lewes BN7 1TR
Approved on 7 March 2018
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Rear Garden:T1 - Italian Cypress - trim straggly small growths from crown to make tree more upright (by no more than 0.5 metres).T2 - Holly - shape top and sides by 1.2-1.5 metresT3 - Yew - cut back 8 No. limbs over garden by up to 2 metres to growth points.T4 - Laurel - fell and grub root.T5 - Philadelphus - prune back face side over garden by no more than 0.5 metres.T6 - Thorn - fell and grub root.
- Received
- 29 January 2018
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- Agent
- R W Green Limited
- ReceivedReceived29 Jan
- ValidatedValidated29 Jan
- Consult.Consultation14 Feb
- TargetTarget Date12 Mar
- DecidedDecided7 Mar
Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 6 Grange Road Lewes BN7 1TR. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 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 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 1TR
- Application type
- Tree in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
- District
- Lewes Conservation Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 January 2018
- Last date for comments
- 14 February 2018
- Target decision date
- 12 March 2018
- Permission expires
- 7 March 2020
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-06702177
- Documents
- 4
- 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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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201910 Sep
T1 - 1 No. Blue Cedar - dead/dying - infected with Sirococcus blight, aerial infection, basal infection…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/19/04401/TCA - 201812 Dec
T1 - 2 No. Yew hedge sections - rear garden - fell and grind stump hubs.T2 - Cypress - remove low limb.T3…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/18/06352/TCA
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