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34 Mayow Road, London, SE26 4JA

DC/24/137976Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 18 November 2024

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR: ONE Goat willow tree (T1) POLLARD to previous pruning points by ht 2m from 4.5m to 2.5m CROWN SPREAD: negligble REASON: Routine Maintenance ONE Apple tree (T2) CROWN LIFT by 1.5m from 1m to 2.5m CROWN REDUCTION by 30% from by 1.6m ht 5.5m to 3.9m CROWN SPREAD by 1.2m from 4m to 2.8m. REASON: Routine Maintenance ONE Magnolia tree (T4) LATERAL REDUCTION x3 lower stems/ORIGIN to 0m. CROWN REDUCTION BY 30% ht by 1.8m from 6m to 4.2m CROWN SPREAD by 1.5m from 5m to 3.5m REASON: Too large, blocks light, routine maintenance. 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
30 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sydenham
Agent
Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated8 Nov
  3. Consult.20 Dec
  4. Target20 Dec
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 10 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 34 MAYOW ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4JA. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Sydenham. We hold 2,166 applications in total for the SE26 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
SE26 4JA
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 November 2024
Last date for comments
20 December 2024
Target decision date
20 December 2024
Decision issued
19 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
Agent address
28, Boveney Road, LONDON, SE23 3NN

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13526962
Comments
0
Documents
9
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: Sydenham Thorpes
  • Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension+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.

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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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