65 Breakspears Road, London, SE4 1TS
Approved on 24 March 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR ONE Sycamore tree(T1) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT height by 4m from 12m to 8m, REDUCE RADIUS by 2m from 10m to 8m. Reason: To provide light to surrounding gardens. Recently one of the stems failed at the main break so the reduction is to maintain the stability of the remaining crown. 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
- 4 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Brockley
- Agent
- Arbortech Tree Services
- ReceivedReceived4 Mar
- ValidatedValidated5 Mar
- Consult.Consultation16 Apr
- TargetTarget Date16 Apr
- DecidedDecided24 Mar
Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 65 BREAKSPEARS ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1TS. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 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 1TS
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 16 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Arbortech Tree Services
- Agent address
- 23 Whitbread Road, LONDON, SE42BD
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.
Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences
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Source: Lewisham
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