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56 Vicars Hill, London, SE13 7JL

DC/25/139712Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 28 May 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR: ONE Oak (T3/T1 in TPO)(approx.ht.15-16m)(spread 10m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 3-4m from 15-16m to approx.ht.10-12m, REDUCE RADIUS by 2-4m from 10m to 6-8m. Reason: Subsidence, repeat previous crown reduction to avoid risk of heave if the Oak is felled - the Oak will be re-pruned to previous prune points every 2 years and pruning regime will be reviewed every 5 years, ref Arboricultural Report 4.4.25 and agents email 28.5.25 agreeing to prune biennially. See also earlier TPO application to fell the oak ref. DC/24/138231. The London Borough of Lewisham 56 Vicars Hill London SE13 7JL Tree Preservation Order 2024. Informative A: please create habitat log piles with arisings to benefit wildlife and biodiversity.

Received
4 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ladywell
Agent
Trevor Heaps Arboricultural Consultancy Ltd
  1. Received4 Apr
  2. Validated5 Apr
  3. Consult.31 May
  4. Target31 May
  5. Decided28 May

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 56 VICARS HILL, LONDON, SE13 7JL. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 168 applications across Ladywell. We hold 980 applications in total for the SE13 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
SE13 7JL
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 April 2025
Last date for comments
31 May 2025
Target decision date
31 May 2025
Decision issued
31 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Trevor Heaps Arboricultural Consultancy Ltd
Agent address
12 Plover Drive, Milford on Sea, SO41 0XF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13923448
Comments
0
Documents
10
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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