Alder House, Breakspears Road, London, SE4 1TT
Approved on 5 January 2024
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
ONE Elder tree (T5) POLLARDING back to height of 1.5m to regenerate due to severe dieback. ONE Cherry tree (T10) Remove dead and damaged stem in favour of remaining three stems. ONE Laburnum tree (T17) HEIGHT REDUCTION by 2m from 8m to 6m to reduce load on base of stem. ONE Rowan tree (T20) CROWN LIFT to 2.5m ONE Willow tree (T23) HEIGHT REDUCTION by 2m from 10m to 8m & LATERAL REDUCTION by 2m from 6m to 4m to reduce stress on stem union. Routine maintenance to provide light to surrounding gardens and for the health and safety of the trees. 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, please create habitat log piles in the garden from cut branches for wildlife and biodiversity.
- Received
- 11 December 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Brockley
- Agent
- Arbortech Tree Services
- ReceivedReceived11 Dec
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation30 Jan
- TargetTarget Date30 Jan
- DecidedDecided5 Jan
Decided in 17 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at ALDER HOUSE, BREAKSPEARS ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1TT. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 4 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 1TT
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 December 2023
- Last date for comments
- 30 January 2024
- Target decision date
- 30 January 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Arbortech Tree Services
- Agent address
- 6 Hoskins Road, Oxted, RH8 9HT
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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