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1 Barnfield Gardens Ditchling Hassocks East Sussex BN6 8UE

SDNP/20/02556/TCATree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 8 September 2020

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

To pollard and reduce tree size and height of sycamore tree

Received
23 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Ditchling And Westmeston Ward
  1. Received23 Jun
  2. Validated23 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target4 Aug
  5. Decided8 Sep

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 1 Barnfield Gardens Ditchling Hassocks East Sussex BN6 8UE. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Ditchling conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Ditchling And Westmeston Ward. We hold 1,705 applications in total for the BN6 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
BN6 8UE
Application type
Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ditchling Parish Council
District
Ditchling Conservation Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 June 2020
Last date for comments
24 July 2020
Target decision date
4 August 2020
Permission expires
8 September 2022

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: Ditchling
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: South Downs

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