45 Ommaney Road, London, SE14 5NS
Approved on 10 November 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR: ONE Silver Birch (T1)(ht.6m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 1m from 6m to ht.5m. Reason: to shape and keep managed. REAR: ONE Plum (T2)(ht.6m FELL. Reason: tree is in decline REAR: ONE Elder (T3)(ht.7m) FELL. Reason: breaking wall Informative A: to thank for maintaining a vegetated rear garden for amenity, wildlife and shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change. Informative B: replacement tree or hedge planting is encouraged with such as elder, goat willow, crab apple, alder buckthorn, hawthorn as these species support a wide variety of wildlife - submitted photographs suggest there may be a dismantled garden shed providing space and opportunity to plant a larger canopy tree to maintain the urban forest canopy. Informative C: please create habitat wood piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.
- Received
- 4 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Telegraph Hill
- Agent
- Fenn's Tree Care Ltd
- ReceivedReceived4 Aug
- ValidatedValidated16 Oct
- Consult.Consultation27 Nov
- TargetTarget Date27 Nov
- DecidedDecided10 Nov
Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 45 OMMANEY ROAD, LONDON, SE14 5NS. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer 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 5NS
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 November 2025
- Decision issued
- 13 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Fenn's Tree Care Ltd
- Agent address
- 10 Southview Close, Swanley, BR8 8BP
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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