Coates Cottage Coates Lane Fittleworth West Sussex RH20 1ES Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01798/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

Notification of intention to crown reduce by up to 2m (all round), remove lowest limb on south-east sector and crown thin by 10% on 1 no. Atlas Cedar tree (T1). Fell 1 no. Walnut tree (T2). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:58

Application progress

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Received

8 May 2026

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Approved

18 Jun 2026

Approved on 18 Jun 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

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Site constraints 5

6 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: St Agathas Cottage, Grade II, about 1 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 5 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 6 with distances

1 mSt Agathas CottageGrade II
21 mBarn to the South West of St Agatha's CottageGrade II
63 mCoates Manor HouseGrade II
96 mChurch of St AgathaGrade I
105 mCoates CottageGrade II
135 mLittle CottageGrade II

Historic England ↗

South Downs National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Coates conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.