5 Earlsthorpe Road, London, SE26 4PD
Approved on 3 March 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR: ONE Apple tree (T1) CROWN REDUCTION HEIGHT by 0.9m from 4.5m to 3.6m & LATERALS by 0.6m from 3m to 2.4m. Reason: Routine maintenance (last performed in February 2023). Informative A: The sensitive management of the tree 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
- 14 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Sydenham
- Agent
- Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived14 Feb
- ValidatedValidated14 Feb
- Consult.Consultation28 Mar
- TargetTarget Date28 Mar
- DecidedDecided3 Mar
Decided in 17 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 5 EARLSTHORPE ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4PD. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 6 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. 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 4PD
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 February 2025
- Last date for comments
- 28 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 March 2025
- Decision issued
- 4 March 2025
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: 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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202026 Nov
FRONT: ONE Sycamore tree (T1) HEIGHT REDUCTION by 2.5m from 5m to 2.5m ONE Cherry tree (T2) crown reduce to…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasDC/20/119360 - 20206 Oct
REAR: ONE Apple (T1) Apple CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT from 4.4m to 3.5m, REDUCE RADIUS from 3.7m to 2.6m on N…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasDC/20/118692
Source: Lewisham
Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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