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4 Sydenham Park Road, London, SE26 4ED

DC/15/093611Trees in Conservation AreasWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 11 March 2016

Council decision: Closed internally

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

Proposal

Fell this self seeded, Ash Tree (T1)- This tree is growing on the boundary wall, undermining the structure of this boundary wall. It has outgrowing the space around it and removal would help the surrounding trees to grow, it would also Reduce shading to the other smaller surrounding trees.

Received
7 September 2015
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received7 Sep
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.19 Oct
  4. Target19 Oct
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 186 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 4 SYDENHAM PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4ED. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 186 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,166 applications in total for the SE26 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at London Borough of Lewisham were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE26 4ED
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2015
Last date for comments
19 October 2015
Target decision date
19 October 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04473771
Comments
0
Documents
2
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: Sydenham Park
  • Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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: Lewisham

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