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Plummers The Street Bishopstone Village Seaford East Sussex BN25 2UD

SDNP/21/03227/TCATree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 13 August 2021

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Reduce laurel hedge in height by approx 1m and trim sidesT2 - Remove elmT3 - Removal of elm and elder suckers throughout the gardenT4 - Trim the sides of the yew treeT5 - Hedge cut the holly shrubT6 - Removal of larger stems of the spindleT7 - Reduce height of ceanothus to wall height and remove dead woodT8 - Removal of crossing branches and crown thin of beech treeT9 - Removal of branches/growth that touches the phone line from the yew tree

Received
30 April 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Seaford West Ward
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.29 Jun
  4. Target11 Jun
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Plummers The Street Bishopstone Village Seaford East Sussex BN25 2UD. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Seaford (Bishopstone) conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Seaford West Ward. We hold 1,428 applications in total for the BN25 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
BN25 2UD
Application type
Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaford Town Council
District
Bishopstone Conservation Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2021
Last date for comments
29 June 2021
Target decision date
11 June 2021
Permission expires
13 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Aaron Bray Tree & Landscapes
Agent address
1 Beacon Drive Seaford BN25 2JY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Seaford (Bishopstone)
  • 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

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2015
    13 Feb

    2 x Yew - remove1 x Ash, Walnut, Beech, Elm - pruning.

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/15/00821/TCA

Source: South Downs

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