8 Common Lane Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8TJ
Approved on 11 November 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
T1 - Ash - Raise crown over road ensuring height clearance of 6m. Raise crown over driveway by 3m - to reduce potential hazards
- Received
- 8 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Ditchling And Westmeston Ward
- ReceivedReceived8 Oct
- ValidatedValidated8 Oct
- Consult.Consultation10 Nov
- TargetTarget Date3 Dec
- DecidedDecided11 Nov
Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 8 Common Lane Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8TJ. South Downs has handled 2,289 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Ditchling And Westmeston Ward. We hold 1,707 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 8TJ
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ditchling Parish Council
- District
- 3852/0501 - TPO (No.4) 2002
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 10 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 11 November 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Absolute Arboriculture
- Agent address
- Maple Lodge Brighton Road Lower Beeding RH13 6PS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14390206
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
Source: South Downs
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