57 Upper Brockley Road, London, SE4 1SY
Approved on 11 August 2023
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
FRONT: ONE Lime tree(T1)(ht. 12m) CROWN LIFT to 4m above ground, LATERAL REDUCTION by 2m from 6m to 4m on east compass point; Reason: Tree is blocking natural light and touching the building and are low over the public footpath. FRONT: ONE Lime tree(T2)(ht. 12m) CROWN LIFT to 4m above ground, LATERAL REDUCTION by 2m from 5m to 3m on east compass point; Reason: Tree is blocking natural light and touching the building and are low over the public footpath. Informative A: The sensitive management of the trees is greatly appreciated for landscape amenity, wildlife, wellbeing, and urban forest canopy for environmental benefits to mitigate the effects of climate change. Informative B: Wherever possible, create log and wood piles with cut branches on site or stack cut branches horizontally between poles as 'dead hedges' for wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
- Received
- 19 July 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Brockley
- Agent
- Acacia Tree Surgeons Ltd
- ReceivedReceived19 Jul
- ValidatedValidated2 Aug
- Consult.Consultation13 Sep
- TargetTarget Date13 Sep
- DecidedDecided11 Aug
Decided in 9 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 57 UPPER BROCKLEY ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1SY. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 5 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 145 applications across Brockley. We hold 647 applications in total for the SE4 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
- SE4 1SY
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 August 2023
- Last date for comments
- 13 September 2023
- Target decision date
- 13 September 2023
- Decision issued
- 15 August 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Acacia Tree Surgeons Ltd
- Agent address
- Acacia House, Tatsfield Approach Road, Tatsfield, Westerham, TN16 2JT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Brockley
- Article 4 direction: Brockley Conservation Area+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.
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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