19 St Margarets Road, London, SE4 1YL
Approved on 2 December 2024
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR: ONE Pear (T1)(ht.6m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 2.4m from 6.0m to ht.3.6m, REDUCE RADIUS by 1.6m from 4.0m to 2.4m on all compass points. Reason: routine maintenance and crown reshape. REAR: ONE Cherry plum (T2)(ht.3m)(r.2m) FELL. Reason: overcrowding with T1 and T3. REAR: ONE Plum (T3)(ht.5m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 1.5m from 5m to ht.3.5m, REDUCE RADIUS by 1.5m from 4.0m to 2.5m on all compass points. Reason: routine maintenance general prune, remove deadwood, crossing branches, and lowest branch over the shed area. FRONT: ONE Elderberry (T4)(ht.4.5m)(r.2.5m) FELL. Reason: extremely close to the house, blocking sunlight. Informative A: replacement planting with small trees, shrubs or perennials for T2 and T4 is encouraged for urban greening amenity, wildlife and wellbeing. Informative B: please create wood piles with arisings for wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
- Received
- 4 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Ladywell
- Agent
- Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived4 Oct
- ValidatedValidated6 Nov
- Consult.Consultation18 Dec
- TargetTarget Date18 Dec
- DecidedDecided2 Dec
Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 19 ST MARGARETS ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1YL. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer 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 169 applications across Ladywell. 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 1YL
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 November 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 November 2024
- Last date for comments
- 18 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 18 December 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
- Agent address
- 28, Boveney Road, LONDON, SE23 3NN
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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