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48 Court Road, Eltham, London, SE9 5NP

25/3541/TCTree works in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 6 November 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Ash - Yellow: Crown reduction - height to be reduced by 4mt from 19mt to 15mt back to suitable reduction points - lateral branches to be reduced by 3mt from 8mt to 5mt back to suitable reduction points - tree historically managed pollard - tree previously managed to this proposed reduction.

Received
23 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
ELTHAM TOWN & AVERY HILL
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 48 COURT ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 5NP. Greenwich has handled 506 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker than Greenwich's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 165 applications across ELTHAM TOWN & AVERY HILL. We hold 1,311 applications in total for the SE9 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Royal Borough of Greenwich were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE9 5NP
Application type
Tree works in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Eltham & Kidbrooke

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 October 2025
Last date for comments
4 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14432814
Documents
5
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Eltham Palace
  • Registered park and garden: Eltham PalacePart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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

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© 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.

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Source: Greenwich

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