18 Westwood Hill, London, SE26 6QR
Approved on 3 March 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
FRONT: ONE Holly (0842)(ht.4m) FELL. Reason: heavily dead ivy congested, adjacent to building entrance and low vigour. FRONT: TWO Laurel (0843)(ht.4m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 1.5m from 4m to 2.5m, REDUCE SPREAD by 1.5m from 3m to 1.5m. Reason: overhanging adjacent property. Informative A: a replacement tree is encouraged for front amenity, wildlife and to reduce air pollution, small trees such as crab apple, hazel, hawthorn, winter flowering cherry, magnolia stellata, and shrubs such as Guelder rose, flowering current, Mahonia charity. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with some arisings from holly and ivy,
- Received
- 7 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Sydenham
- ReceivedReceived7 Feb
- ValidatedValidated7 Feb
- Consult.Consultation21 Mar
- TargetTarget Date21 Mar
- DecidedDecided3 Mar
Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 18 WESTWOOD HILL, LONDON, SE26 6QR. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 5 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 6QR
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 February 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 21 March 2025
- Decision issued
- 6 March 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Connick Tree Care
- Agent address
- New Pond Farm, Woodhatch Road, Reigate, RH2 7QH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Jews Walk
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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© 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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201219 Jan
18 Westwood Hill, London, SE26 6QR. Rear Garden - TWO Holly, ONE Bay, ONE Western Red Cedar Reduce Height to…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasDC/12/079247 - 201125 Aug
Crown reduce by 40% an Apple tree in the rear garden at 18 Westwood Hill, SE26.
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasDC/11/078248
Source: Lewisham
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