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187 Westcombe Hill, Blackheath, London, SE3 7DR

25/2772/TCTree works in a Conservation AreaWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 29 August 2025

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

Proposal

Fell Palm - planted as a small ornamental plant but has grown rapidly, sheds a lot of mucky seed heads and leaves into the pond - can poison the fish if not attended to, impacting the growth of the silver birch tree next to it., removal will enable the birch tree to grow. see sketch plan . There are no plans to replant. The rest of the trees in the garden are an ash and 2 silver birches.

Received
29 August 2025
Ward
BLACKHEATH WESTCOMBE
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 0 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 187 WESTCOMBE HILL, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7DR. Greenwich has handled 506 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the SE3 postcode area.

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Application details

Postcode
SE3 7DR
Application type
Tree works in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
29 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14288295
Documents
0
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

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Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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