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42 The Covert, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR6 0BU

25/04942/TPOConsent under Tree Preservation OrdersApproved

Approved on 6 January 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 Oak on front boundary - Reduce in height by 3m from 22m to 19m. Reduce SE spread by 2m from 10m to 8m. Reduce SW spread by 2m from 10m to 8m. Reduce NW spread by 2m from 10m to 8m. Reduce NE spread by 2m from 10m to 8m. T2 Ash on rear boundary - Re-pollard by pruning back to vicinity of previous pollard head (knuckles) by removing 5m growth, taking care not to breach occluded areas. Estimated resultant height on completion of works will be 10m above ground level. T3 Field maple on rear right boundary - Reduce SE face back to boundary by removing 3m growth from 6m to 3m. Remove lower northern stem over alley way back to source. T4 Hawthorn on rear right boundary (adjacent to T3) - Trim back to boundary by removing 0.3m growth from 2m to 1.7m SUBJECT TO TPO 353 (12.12.1986)

Received
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Petts Wood & Knoll
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.13 Nov
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 42 THE COVERT, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR6 0BU. Bromley has handled 2,348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the The Covert, Petts Wood conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 211 applications across Petts Wood & Knoll. We hold 4,117 applications in total for the BR6 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
BR6 0BU
Application type
Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Consultation expiry
13 November 2025
Consultation end
13 November 2025
Target decision date
13 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
23 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14427907
Documents
11

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: The Covert, Petts Wood
  • 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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