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4 Woodbastwick Road Sydenham London SE26 5LQ

15/03504/TREETrees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 24 August 2015

Council decision: Decision - No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

reduce the height and lateral spread by 2 metres of 1 sycamore in the front garden.

Received
15 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penge And Cator
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated15 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Sep
  4. Target12 Aug
  5. Decided24 Aug

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 4 Woodbastwick Road Sydenham London SE26 5LQ. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Cator Road, Sydenham conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,165 applications in total for the SE26 postcode area.

93% of trees applications at London Borough of Bromley were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE26 5LQ
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 July 2015
Last date for comments
14 September 2015
Target decision date
12 August 2015
Permission expires
24 August 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
0
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Cator Road, Sydenham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    6 Nov

    T1 Sycamore - Fell.

    PendingTrees24/04176/TREE

Source: Bromley

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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