1A Drake Road, London, SE4 1QH
Approved on 8 September 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
ONE Robinia Tree (T1)(ht.11m) CROWN REDUCTION HEIGHT by 3m from 11m to 8m, REDUCE RADIUS by 2m from 8m to 6m. CROWN THIN by 25 % Reason: Reduction on all laterals and verticals, back to appropriate growth points, as part of regular 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
- 30 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Brockley
- ReceivedReceived30 Jul
- ValidatedValidated1 Aug
- Consult.Consultation12 Sep
- TargetTarget Date12 Sep
- DecidedDecided8 Sep
Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 1A DRAKE ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1QH. 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 145 applications across Brockley. We hold 647 applications in total for the SE4 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
- SE4 1QH
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 12 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 September 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Broccoli Tree Care
- Agent address
- 105 Barriedale, London, SE14 6RP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Brockley
- Article 4 direction: Brockley Conservation Area+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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