2 Priory Villas Mountfield Road Lewes BN7 2UJ
Approved on 23 December 2019
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
1no Cherry reduce by 1-2m
- Received
- 13 November 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- ReceivedReceived13 Nov
- ValidatedValidated13 Nov
- Consult.Consultation3 Dec
- TargetTarget Date25 Dec
- DecidedDecided23 Dec
Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 2 Priory Villas Mountfield Road Lewes BN7 2UJ. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Lewes Priory Ward. We hold 4,321 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 2UJ
- Application type
- Tree in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 November 2019
- Last date for comments
- 3 December 2019
- Target decision date
- 25 December 2019
- Decision issued
- 24 December 2019
- Permission expires
- 24 December 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Brighton tree specialists
- Agent address
- 12 Titian Road HOVE BN3 5QS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08287568
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 19
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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