St Nicholas Church The Street Houghton West Sussex BN18 9LW Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/00888/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

T1 - Crown reduction of 1x magnolia tree by approximately 2-2.5m to suitable growth points and shape, leaving a minimum of 1m clearance from the surrounding roofs and buildings. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:17

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Application progress

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Received

5 Mar 2026

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Approved

10 Apr 2026

Approved on 10 Apr 2026 · SDNPA Delegated Decision · Last checked 28 Jul 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION Decision · 10 Apr 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

IMG AERIAL TREE LOCATION PLAN Plans · 4 Mar 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 31 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

Grade II* listed: The Parish Church of St Nicholas

List entry 1027636 · 2 m away · 3 more listed buildings within 150 m (3 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.

Show the other 3 with distances

27 mThe SmithyGrade II
39 mSt Nicholas CottagesGrade II
113 mHoughton FarmhouseGrade 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.

Houghton 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 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 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 ↗

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; Priority habitat 38 m away: Good quality semi improved grassland.

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: BN18 9LW
Received: 5 Mar 2026
Validated: 5 Mar 2026
Ward: Arundel Ward
Parish: Houghton Parish Meeting
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 16 Apr 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 10 Apr 2026
Decision level: SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 36 days from validation, 7 days faster than South Downs's median of 43 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one36d

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 →