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Blackheath Gdst High School, Wemyss Road, London, SE3 0TG

DC/23/132465Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 28 July 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR: ONE London Plane (T37, TPO T10)(ht:20m,r.s.13m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 3m from 20m to 17m, REDUCE RADIUS by 3m from 13m to 10m. Reason: regular maintenance, tree to be reduced to previous reduction points. REAR: ONE London Plane (T40, TPO T13)(ht:18m, r.s.16m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 1m from 18m to 17m, REDUCE RADIUS by 3 from 16m to 13m. Reason: tree is in poor form. The London Borough of Lewisham (Montpelier Row) Tree Preservation Order, 1976. Informative A: the sensitive management of the trees is greatly appreciated to maintain the treed landscape setting of the school, Falconwood Court flats on Lynch Close to the rear, rear outlook of Wemyss Road properties, local landscape amenity, urban forest canopy, urban greening, well being, wildlife, environmental benefits to mitigate climate change and nature depletion. Informative B: please create habitat log piles for wildlife and biodiversity with arisings. Informative C: wherever space allows please enhance the school playground setting with additional understorey trees, shrubs, hedges, climbers, flower-rich perennials, bulbs and groundcover for amenity, insects and pollinators.

Received
23 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackheath
Agent
Crown Tree Surgeons Ltd
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated23 Jul
  3. Consult.3 Sep
  4. Target3 Sep
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 5 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at BLACKHEATH GDST HIGH SCHOOL, WEMYSS ROAD, LONDON, SE3 0TG. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 7 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 167 applications across Blackheath. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the SE3 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
SE3 0TG
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 July 2023
Last date for comments
3 September 2023
Target decision date
3 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Crown Tree Surgeons Ltd
Agent address
7 Newlands Court, Footscray Road, London, SE9 2SS

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
3

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: Blackheath
  • 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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