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20 Sydenham Park Road, London, SE26 4ED

DC/25/140264Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 23 June 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR: Oak (T1)(ht.7m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 2m. LATERAL REDUCTION by 2m from 6m to 4m Reason:Clearence from neigboring garden to allow sunlight and routine maintenance. 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
27 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated28 May
  3. Consult.9 Jul
  4. Target9 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jun

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 20 SYDENHAM PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4ED. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 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 181 applications across Forest Hill. 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 4ED
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 May 2025
Last date for comments
9 July 2025
Target decision date
9 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Flat 186 Pullman Court, Streatham Hill, London, SW2 4TA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14051503
Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Sydenham Park
  • 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 (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.

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