Firle Place The Street Firle East Sussex BN8 6LP Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03387/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Pending

Proposal

T1.18 - Historic Beech - Various remedial action to scaffold limbs and crown thinning and reduction of upper-third to reduce weighting by approx. 30% Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 12 Sept 2026, 08:05

Application progress

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Received

1 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 13 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 13 Oct 2026, from South Downs's recent tree and landscaping works.

Documents 1

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM REDACTED Application Form · 28 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

Grade I listed: Firle Place

List entry 1217315 · 3 m from the pin · 3 more listed buildings within 150 m (1 Grade II*, 2 Grade II)

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.

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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.

Registered park or garden: Firle Place

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

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Firle 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). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map 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: Wood pasture and parkland

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

Also on the record

Scheduled monument 187 m away: Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place; Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 11 September 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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