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3 Zelah Road Orpington BR5 4JU

19/03906/TPSPLDTPO Split DecisionRefused

Refused on 20 November 2019

Council decision: Application Refused

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Carpinus (Hornbeam) hedge reduction - Reduce unfinished section of trees by 2-4m to roughly match in with vent pipe on neighbouring house. SUBJECT TO TPO 2666 (Pending 09.08.2019)

Received
25 September 2019
Ward
Orpington
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.8 Nov
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 3 Zelah Road Orpington BR5 4JU. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Orpington. We hold 3,017 applications in total for the BR5 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
BR5 4JU
Application type
TPO Split Decision
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2019
Consultation expiry
8 November 2019
Consultation end
8 November 2019
Neighbour consultation start
25 September 2019
Neighbour consultation end
8 November 2019
Last date for comments
8 November 2019
Target decision date
20 November 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
0
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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.

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Source: Bromley

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