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Highgate School Sports Field, Bishopswood Road, Hornsey, London

HGY/2024/2959Consent under Tree Preservation OrdersApproved

Approved on 18 December 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to tree protected by a TPO T28: Lime (22m): Heavy lean into sports field, reduce height by 3m. Microprobe readings consistent with ring shake or internal crack on tension side. (Works to T16: Sycamore will be considered separately under application reference HGY/2024/2983 as the tree is not protected by a TPO but is located within a Conservation Area)

Submitted
28 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Highgate
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Nov
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Highgate School Sports Field, Bishopswood Road, Hornsey, London. Haringey has handled 724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Haringey's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 405 applications across Highgate. We hold 962 applications in total for the N8 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at London Borough of Haringey were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
N8 7PB
Application type
Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2024
Target decision date
19 November 2024
Application expires
23 December 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13515843
Documents
5

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: Hornsey High Street
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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: Haringey

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