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Petworth House Church Street Petworth West Sussex GU28 0AE

SDNP/24/00329/TCATree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 21 March 2024

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Notification of intention to reduce height by 5m and reduce widths by 2m on 1 no. Lime tree (quoted as T1), reduce height by 9m on 1 no. Lime tree (T2) and fell 2 no. Horse Chestnut trees (quoted a T3 and T4).

Received
25 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Petworth Ward CH
  1. Received25 Jan
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided21 Mar

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Petworth House Church Street Petworth West Sussex GU28 0AE. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Petworth conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Petworth Ward CH. We hold 576 applications in total for the GU28 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
GU28 0AE
Application type
Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Petworth Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2024
Last date for comments
20 March 2024
Target decision date
26 March 2024
Permission expires
21 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12755467
Documents
7
Constraints
13

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: Petworth
  • Registered park and garden: Petworth House
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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