Land Adjoining The Thatched Cottage Church Lane Southease East Sussex BN7 3HX Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/02807/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

T1- Crown lift to 5mH over access road. Reduce crown by up to 4m in height and 1.5m width on western side. T2 - Ash Reduce the height of the adjacent Ash to match the finished height of the Sycamore to maintain the combined crown Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

17 Jul 2026

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Approved

4 Sept 2026

Approved on 4 Sept 2026 · SDNPA Delegated Decision · Last checked 4 Sept 2026

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION Decision · 4 Sept 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF FINAL TREE OFFICER COMMENTS Consultee Comment · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF SDNP TREE OFFICERS - CONNICK CONSULTANCY Consultee Comment · 31 Jul 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 9

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.

Southease 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 3a

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) agrees.

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 1

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 ↗

5 listed buildings within 150 m

Nearest: Thatched Cottage, Grade II, 51 m away · 1 Grade I, 4 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 5 with distances

51 mThatched CottageGrade II
62 mSouthease PlaceGrade II
105 mThe Parish ChurchGrade I
136 mRock Cottage and Barn CottageGrade II
143 mThe RestGrade II

Historic England ↗

SSSI 162 m away: Lewes Brooks SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; Priority habitat 37 m away: Traditional orchard.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, 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.

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Important details

Council: South Downs
Application type: Tree in a Conservation Area
Postcode: BN7 3HX
Received: 17 Jul 2026
Validated: 17 Jul 2026
Ward: Kingston Ward
Parish: Southease Parish Meeting
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 28 Aug 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 4 Sept 2026
Decision level: SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 49 days from validation, 6 days slower than South Downs's median of 43 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one49d

Council43d

UK36d

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 →