Land at Stream Farm Ropes Lane Fernhurst West Sussex GU27 3JD Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03762/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Application in Progress

Proposal

Notification of intention to fell 1 no. Oak tree (T1) and 2 no Ash trees (T2 and T3). Reduce 2 no. lowest limbs by up to 4m (over neighbours outbuilding) on 1 no. Oak tree (T4). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 06:33

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Application progress

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Received

30 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 11 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 11 Nov 2026 and 18 Nov 2026, from South Downs's recent tree and landscaping works.

Documents 2

Plans & drawings 1

IMG TREE LOCATION PLAN Plans · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

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.

Fernhurst 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: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

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

Also on the record

Public footpath 29 m away; Priority habitat 20 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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.

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