Skip to content
PlanIndex Get alerts
Menu

Planning application

209 Preston Drove Brighton BN1 6FL

Granted Brighton and Hove BH2025/01842 Tree Works in Conservation Area

Works: Trees

Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.

Proposal

Rear garden T1 - Cherry Crown reduce and shape by approx. 30% - 1.5m height reduction 1m lateral crown reduction to shape and balance Crown thin by approx. 20% and remove all clematis from crown Reason: routine maintenance to ensure all gardens in the vicinity are not effected by excessive shade and leaf drop

As published by the council, reference BH2025/01842

Application record

Reference
BH2025/01842
Type
Tree Works in Conservation Area
Status
Decided
Decision
Approved
Received
24 Jul 2025
Validated
24 Jul 2025
Decided
1 Sep 2025
Ward
Hollingdean & Fiveways
Postcode
BN1 6FL

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 24 Jul 2025

    Received by Brighton and Hove

  2. 1 Sep 2025

    Decision issued: Approved

  3. 21 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Who's behind it

Company information only, from the register and Companies House

Green Timber Tree Surgery Ltd Agent, a tree-works contractor registered in Brighton

Active · incorporated 2021 · Brighton

12 applications on PlanIndex · across 3 councils · 100% granted

Trade members see everything this firm has filed, how it was decided, and get an email the day it files again.

See their track record

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

3 documents on file for this application

A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.

Trade members open them from here.

Open the documents

What this grant of permission means

Brighton and Hove granted permission on 1 September 2025, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

About tree works applications

Applications for works to trees cover protected trees: consent under a tree preservation order, or six weeks notice for trees in a conservation area. More in our guide to planning application types.

Nearby applications

Within 500 metres

  • 79 Stanford Avenue Brighton BN1 6FA

    BH2025/02972 Submitted 5 Dec 2025 136m away

    1 x lime - re-pollard 1 x sycamore - reduce by 3m back to live growth points 4 x chestnut re-pollard reason : to manage tree size and old pollards

    Granted Trees 4 docs

  • 77 Sandgate Road Brighton BN1 6JP

    BH2025/02494 Submitted 8 Oct 2025 137m away

    Certificate of lawfulness for a proposed loft conversion incorporating rear dormer and 2no. front rooflights

    Granted Lawful development Loft or dormer 7 docs

  • 77 Sandgate Road Brighton BN1 6JP

    BH2025/02495 Submitted 8 Oct 2025 139m away

    Erection of ground and first floor rear extension.

    Granted Householder Extension 6 docs
    Domestic

  • 298 Ditchling Road Brighton BN1 6JG

    BH2025/02510 Submitted 10 Oct 2025 140m away

    89% historically approved · decision due ~5 Dec

    Application to vary Conditions 2 and 3 (Opening Hours) and to remove Condition 6 (Mix of Uses) of planning permission BH2021/01824.

    Awaiting decision Amendments 25 docs

  • 50 Sandgate Road Brighton BN1 6JQ

    BH2025/03066 Submitted 18 Dec 2025 151m away

    94% historically approved · decision due ~12 Feb

    Certificate of lawfulness for proposed loft conversion, incorporating rear dormer and 3no. front rooflights.

    Awaiting decision Lawful development Loft or dormer 7 docs

  • 34 Sandgate Road Brighton BN1 6JQ

    BH2025/02391 Submitted 26 Sep 2025 180m away

    Creation of a new basement and lightwell including insertion of windows at basement level and associated works.

    Granted Householder Windows or glazing 7 docs
    Domestic

In Brighton and Hove

  • BH2026/00406 Awaiting decision

    38 Clermont Terrace Brighton BN1 6SJ

    T1 Ash to reduce away from buildings either side of tree by approx 3 metres. Cut back to appropriate growth points.

    22 Feb 2026 Trees
  • BH2026/00395 Awaiting decision

    Flat A 18 Fourth Avenue Hove BN3 2PJ

    Its possibly a sycamore thats encroaching the garden space ,, the customer i am quoting for would like it removed

    20 Feb 2026 Trees
  • BH2026/00099 Granted

    Flat 1 63 Goldstone Villas Hove BN3 3RW

    2 Elm trees at rear of property - Re-pollard to last pollard points on Goldstone Villas side to match reduction on Denmark villas (opposite side) They need trimming back as this hasn't been done for 7+ years and they block the light to my garden and flat

    19 Jan 2026 Trees
  • BH2026/00370 Awaiting decision

    Flat 4 15 Buckingham Road Brighton BN1 3RH

    T1 Sycamore- remove 3 epicormic stems at the base of the tree (approx diameter 10 cms each) Reduce central top height of the tree by 2 meters and reshape the crown all around. Reasons- the tree has not been worked on for some time and it is cutting out light at the back of the property and for other properties in the vicinity. It is a very tall tree for the confined space that it is in.

    18 Feb 2026 Trees
  • BH2026/00361 Awaiting decision

    Shawcross House 235 - 237 Preston Road Brighton BN1 6SW

    yew - reduce by 3m Portuguese laurel - reduce by 3m yew - reduce by 2.5m holly - pollard/reduce by 3m bay - reduce by 3m reduce all growth 1m back from property behind REASON to reduce shading to residents flats

    17 Feb 2026 Trees