70 Waller Road, London, SE14 5LA
Approved on 18 August 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR: ONE Birch (T3)(ht.7.5m) FELL. Reason: clay shrinkage subsidence damage to one side of rear bay window - no birch roots below rear foundation depth 1.7m, drain defects identified, soil not desiccated, birch a low water demand species. Informative A: crown reduction of the birch (T3) is encouraged with height reduction by 2.5m to ht.5m as recommended in MWA Arboricultural report, as no evidence the birch is causal in the cracking on one side of rear bay window. Informative B: if the birch is felled a replacement tree is encouraged further from the property in the rear garden selected from the NHBC low water demand species list such as elder, fig, birch, hazel, mulberry, magnolia, Laburnum for rear amenity, wildlife and environemntal benefits. Informative C: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.
- Received
- 18 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Telegraph Hill
- Agent
- MWA Arboriculture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived18 Jul
- ValidatedValidated21 Jul
- Consult.Consultation1 Sep
- TargetTarget Date1 Sep
- DecidedDecided18 Aug
Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 70 WALLER ROAD, LONDON, SE14 5LA. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 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 109 applications across Telegraph Hill. 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 5LA
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 1 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 1 September 2025
- Decision issued
- 19 August 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- MWA Arboriculture Ltd
- Agent address
- Unit 8 Stephenson House, Horsley Business Centre, Horsley, NE15 0NY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Telegraph Hill
- Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension+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.
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Source: Lewisham
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