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106 Wood Vale, London, SE23 3ED

DC/25/140425Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 21 July 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR: ONE Ginkgo, not Honey locust (T2)(ht.15m) FELL. Reason: to combat subsidence damage to 106 Wood Vale (see also DC/25/140418 to fell same rear Ginkgo). Informative A: to encourage planting a smaller species replacement tree in the rear garden for amenity, wildlife and shade to reduce high temperatures in increasingly hot summers due to the changing climate, suggested species: crab apple, elder, hazel, alder buckthorn, quince (Cydonia oblonga) medlar, mulberry, pear, magnolia. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity. Informative C: the programme of level monitoring is welcomed, and encouraged to continue to assess if the structural issues stabilise after the removal of the rear Ginkgo (T2).

Received
11 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated12 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target24 Jul
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 106 WOOD VALE, LONDON, SE23 3ED. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 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 181 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,610 applications in total for the SE23 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
SE23 3ED
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
1 July 2025
Last date for comments
24 July 2025
Target decision date
24 July 2025
Decision issued
23 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14090317
Comments
0
Documents
6
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: Forest Hill
  • Article 4 direction: Forest Hill Article 4 Direction+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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    11 Jun

    REAR: ONE Ginkgo, not Honey locust (T2)(ht.15m) FELL. Reason: to combat subsidence damage to 106 Wood Vale…

    This applicationApprovedTreesDC/25/140425
  2. 2025
    10 Jun

    Tree works as application form and acknowledgement letter dated 2 July 2025 for: FRONT: ONE Flowering Ash…

    ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasPart ofDC/25/140418

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