St Winifred's Infant School, 103 Effingham Road, London, SE12 8NS
Approved on 5 May 2023
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR: ONE Sycamore (T1)(ht:10m): REDUCE HEIGHT by 2.5m from 10m to 7.5m, LATERAL REDUCTION on north side of crown by 2.5m back to boundary line, rigging/roping techniques will be used to mitigate any undue damage to anything below; Reason: Tree is in neighbour's garden 78 Handen Road overhanging rear boundary. Informative A: the sensitive management of the tree is greatly appreciated for landscape amenity, wildlife, wellbeing, and urban forest canopy to mitigate climate change. Informative B: please create habitat log piles on site from cut branches for wildlife and biodiversity.
- Received
- 27 April 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Lee Green
- Agent
- Down to Earth Trees Ltd
- ReceivedReceived27 Apr
- ValidatedValidated27 Apr
- Consult.Consultation8 Jun
- TargetTarget Date8 Jun
- DecidedDecided5 May
Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at ST WINIFRED'S INFANT SCHOOL, 103 EFFINGHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE12 8NS. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 7 weeks quicker than Lewisham'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 170 applications across Lee Green. We hold 524 applications in total for the SE12 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
- SE12 8NS
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 April 2023
- Last date for comments
- 8 June 2023
- Target decision date
- 8 June 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Down to Earth Trees Ltd
- Agent address
- The Oast, Preston Farm, Shoreham Road, Shoreham, TN14 7UD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: Lee Manor
- Article 4 direction: Lee Manor Article 4(2) Direction+1 more
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.
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Source: Lewisham
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