Park Hill, London Road, London, SE23 3UR
Proposal
FRONT: ONE Sycamore (08BJ)(ht.16m) Crown clean, remove deadwood and small broken, rubbing or crossing branches below 25mm. Reason: routine maintenance, health & safety. FRONT: ONE Horse Chestnut (08BL)(13m) Crown clean, remove deadwood and small broken, rubbing or crossing branches below 25mm. Reason: routine maintenance, health & safety. FRONT: Mixed (Prunus spp.)(08BP)(ht.5.5m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT from 5.5m to 2.5m from ground level to reform hedge/screen form due to over extended stem lean and overhang to footpath. FRONT: ONE Hornbeam (08BU(17m) FELL. Reason: extensive basal and lower stem decay, demonstrated by no resistance to metal probe, high target area, health & safety. REAR: ONE Willow (08BW)(5-9m) FELL. Reason: extensive basal decay, Ganoderma decay fungus present, existing stem failure history, health & safety. Retain 1m habitat stump for biodiversity. Informative: hornbeam 08BU - appears to be dead by Oct 2020 in street view so the duty to replace a tree which dies in a conservation area applies. Informative: willow 08BW - the retention of 1m habitat stump is hugely welcomed for biodiversity and stag beetle habitat. A replacement tree would be greatly appreciated for amenity. Informative: horse chestnut 08BK - a third replacement tree would be greatly appreciated for this road frontage tree which died and was removed by January 2018, for visual amenity, the woodland character of Forest Hill conservation area and to maintain the urban forest tree canopy.
- Received
- 21 December 2020
- Decided
- 22 January 2021 · Raise No Objection
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Forest Hill
- ReceivedSubmitted21 Dec
- ValidatedValidated21 Dec
- Consult.Consultation1 Feb
- TargetTarget Date1 Feb
- DecidedDecided22 Jan
Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)
This is a tree application at PARK HILL, LONDON ROAD, LONDON, SE23 3UR. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 34 days. This one was decided in 32 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 196 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,595 applications in total for the SE23 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Forest Hill
- Article 4 direction: Forest Hill Article 4(3) Direction+1 more
- 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.
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