Ilex Cottage The Street Burpham West Sussex BN18 9RJ Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01093/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

T1 - Ilex Oak - 2m Radial spread reduction on all aspects from 8m to 6m. 3m Height reduction from 18m to 15m. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 Mar 2026
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Approved
11 May 2026

Approved on 11 May 2026 · SDNPA Delegated Decision · Last checked 28 Jul 2026

Documents 4

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 10 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

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.
Burpham and Wepham 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.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
3 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: 88 and 89, the Street, Grade II, 35 m away · 3 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 3 with distances
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Scheduled monument 159 m away: Burpham camp; National infrastructure project 1518 m away: Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £300,000 in May 2004. Detached house, freehold.

7 May 2004£300,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area232 m² (2,497 sq ft)
Energy ratingB (82 out of 100)
PropertyDetached house
Built2013
HeatingAir source heat pump, electric
WallsAverage thermal transmittance 0.11 W/m²K

From the energy performance certificate lodged in December 2013, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Application type
Tree in a Conservation Area
Postcode
BN18 9RJ
Received
18 Mar 2026
Validated
18 Mar 2026
Ward
Arundel Ward
Parish
Burpham Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
29 Apr 2026
Decision
Raise No Objection
Decision date
11 May 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Greensmiths Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 54 days from validation, 11 days slower than South Downs's median of 43 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

76%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
445decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by South Downs in the last twelve months, from validation. South Downs decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14788808
Planning Portal ref
PP-14788808
Statutory expiry
29 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.