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Oak Lodge Watts Lane Chislehurst BR7 5PJ

24/03612/TREETrees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 25 November 2024

Council decision: Decision - No Objection

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

Proposal

x2 Mature Lime trees along the front boundary, left of the drive overhanging the pub - Remove any basal growth and trunk growth up to 4m. Selectively thin a number of minor low hanging branches to clear the Tigers Head sign. Dead wood and inspect. Thin out each canopy by 30%, paying particular attention to the ends of the branches. Line of approx. 16 mature previously pollarded Limes running along the front boundary and part way down the right-hand boundary - Re pollard. Mature Blue Prunus along the front boundary, first tree right of the garage, previously pollarded to a similar height as the Limes - Re- pollard to the most recent level of reduction.

Received
5 September 2024
Ward
Chislehurst
  1. Received5 Sep
  2. Validated5 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Oct
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 81 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Oak Lodge Watts Lane Chislehurst BR7 5PJ. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer 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 5PJ
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 September 2024
Target decision date
3 October 2024
Permission expires
25 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
MJM Forestry
Agent address
Birchley House Farm Fosten Lane Biddenden Ashford TN27 8DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
5
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
  • Listed building: Grade II: Briars PlaceOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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