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St Mary Hall, High Street, Chislehurst, BR7 5AQ

20/03920/TREENotification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 23 November 2020

Council decision: NO OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 Oak at top of driveway by entrance to church - Clear away from telephone lines leaving minimum of 1.5m clearance.T2 Mulberry - Reduce crown by no more than 1.5m. Create clearance from building of no less than 1.5m.G1 Group of Purple leaf plum in centre of churchyard (trees are dead/declining) - Remove to 200mm above ground level, leaving all reverted water shoots.T3 Oak in centre of churchyard over pathway - Crown raise entire canopy to 2.5m removing no more than 2m of growth to suitable secondary growth points.

Received
27 October 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chislehurst
Agent
Down to Earth Trees Ltd
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided23 Nov

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Mary Hall , High Street, Chislehurst, BR7 5AQ. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Chislehurst conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 289 applications across Chislehurst. We hold 2,673 applications in total for the BR7 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
BR7 5AQ
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2020
Target decision date
8 December 2020
Permission expires
23 November 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
Down to Earth Trees Ltd
Agent address
The Oast Preston Farm Shoreham Road Shoreham TN14 7UD

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09194279
Documents
2
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: Chislehurst
  • 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.

Source: Bromley

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