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Highfield Cricket Ground Road Chislehurst BR7 5HD

21/03799/TREETrees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 21 September 2021

Council decision: Decision - No Objection

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

Proposal

G1 Portuguese Laurel, Photinia & Fatsia towards middle of rear garden - Section fell Laurel as close to ground level as possible under canopy of Conifer. Reduce and shape one Photinia shrub growing over footpath and reduce and shape a group of Fatsia growing opposite side of footpath. G2 Cypress in rear garden, either side of foot path - Lift lower branches to approximately 3m above ground level. T1 Camelia in rear garden, closer to rear of property - Trim back previous seasons regrowth. G3 Paper Bark Maple and Conifer towards bottom of garden - Fell the Conifer growing too close to Maple and remove deadwood from Maple. T2 Cypress - Crown reduce overall height by up to 1.5m and trim and shape the remaining canopy. G4 Olive Tunnel towards rear of garden - Trim and shape to create a walk through tunnel effect. G5 Japanese Maple and Pleached Holm Oaks on front boundary - Crown reduce overall height and radial spread of the canopy by up to 1m. Remove major deadwood and thin the overall crown by approximately 20%. Trim previous seasons regrowth. G6 Pleached Holm Oaks on front left hand boundary - Trim previous seasons regrowth on all sides including neighbours.

Received
9 August 2021
Ward
Chislehurst
  1. Received9 Aug
  2. Validated9 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Sep
  5. Decided21 Sep

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Highfield Cricket Ground Road Chislehurst BR7 5HD. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Chislehurst conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 290 applications across Chislehurst. We hold 2,674 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 5HD
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 August 2021
Target decision date
6 September 2021
Permission expires
21 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Trees Uk
Agent address
Longfield Cottage Nash Lane Keston BR2 6AP

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10110215
Documents
16
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

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

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