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20 Casella Road, London, SE14 5QL

DC/25/139922Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 2 June 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR: ONE Holly (T1)(ht.5.5m) FELL. Reason: removal to reduce lack of light and proxmity to property. Informative A: a replacement tree is encouraged for rear amenity, wildlife and environmental benefits such as Amelanchier, crab apple, pear, bird cherry, hawthorn, elder, Tibetan cherry, paperbark maple, hazel, medlar, Japanese snowbell, Harlequin Glorybower, Magnolia Kobus. Informative B: please create habitat log piles for wildlife and biodiversity with arisings.

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
New Cross Gate
Agent
Tree Surgeons In South London LTD
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated26 Apr
  3. Consult.7 Jun
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided2 Jun

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 20 CASELLA ROAD, LONDON, SE14 5QL. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 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 36 applications across New Cross Gate. We hold 375 applications in total for the SE14 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
SE14 5QL
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 May 2025
Last date for comments
7 June 2025
Target decision date
7 June 2025
Decision issued
7 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tree Surgeons In South London LTD
Agent address
104, Gosterwood Street, LONDON, SE8 5NY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13972850
Comments
0
Documents
0
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Hatcham
  • Article 4 direction: Hatcham Conservation Area+1 more

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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