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Camden Leigh, 40 Wilderness Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5EY

20/03943/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 Blue Atlas Cedar in neighbours front garden - Reduce elongating branches by 2.5m as close to interior line of hedge below.T2 Holly adjacent to T1 - Reduce back to boundary by no more than 1.5m.T4 Smoke bush - Reduce by no more than 1.5m leaving a rounded shape.T5 Cryptomeria on rear left hand boundary - Remove and grind to 200mm below ground level.T6 Crab Apple - Reduce by no more than 40cm to 3m in height.T7 Dawn Redwood - Reduce elongating branches on right hand side of crown back in line with general crown outline removing no more than 0.5m.

Received
28 October 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chislehurst
Agent
Down to Earth Trees Ltd
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided23 Nov

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Camden Leigh, 40 Wilderness Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5EY. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Chislehurst conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 290 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 5EY
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2020
Target decision date
9 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-09198337
Documents
3
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.

Associated applications

  1. 2020
    28 Oct

    T1 Blue Atlas Cedar in neighbours front garden - Reduce elongating branches by 2.5m as close to interior line…

    This applicationApprovedTrees20/03943/TREE
  2. 2020
    28 Oct

    T3 Cedar on front boundary - Reduce by no more than 1m.SUBJECT TO TPO 2445 (28.10.2011)

    ApprovedConsent under Tree Preservation OrdersFiled alongside20/03944/TPO

Source: Bromley

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