Friends Meeting House 32 Friars Walk Lewes East Sussex BN7 2LE
Proposal
Lime Tree at the northern end of the Meeting House garden - reduce to previous reduction
- Received
- 12 January 2021
- Decided
- 22 April 2021 · Raise No Objection
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Bridge Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted12 Jan
- ValidatedValidated12 Jan
- Consult.Consultation22 Feb
- TargetTarget Date23 Feb
- DecidedDecided22 Apr
Decided in 100 days (council typically 56)
This is a tree application at Friends Meeting House 32 Friars Walk Lewes East Sussex BN7 2LE. South Downs has handled 2,274 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 43 days. This one was decided in 100 days, 8 weeks longer than South Downs's median. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Lewes Bridge Ward. We hold 4,278 applications in total for the BN7 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20243 Oct
T1 - Lime - Crown raise to 3.5m and reduction of lateral branches by 2 meters while maintaining the upper…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/24/04139/TCA - 202426 Sep
T1 - Lime - Crown raise to 3.5m, and reduction to lateral branches by 2m
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/24/03981/TCA - 20143 Oct
1 x Lime - Crown raise to 3.5m and reduce lateral branches only by no more than 2m (leaving upper canopy as…
ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/14/05047/TCA
Planning 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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