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Woolstone Road Medical Centre, Woolstone Road, London, SE23 2TR

DC/25/141280Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 1 December 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

FRONT: ONE Lime (T1, in TPO G1) CROWN REDUCE by 4m from 20m to 16m. Reason: repeat maintenance to previous points as marked image provided 24 Nov 2025, to retain the tree close to the building, and encourage a well-balanced crown for future years. The London Borough of Lewisham Land at St George's Church and Vicarage, Woolstone Road, London SE23 2SG Tree Preservation Order, 1999. NOTE: the elder and laurel are not within the TPO and prior consent from the council is not required for: REAR: ONE Elder & ONE Laurel (G1) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 2m from 6m to 4m, REDUCE LATERAL SPREAD by 1m from 3m to 2m. Reason: regular maintenance to encourage well balanced crown for future. Informative A: huge thank you for retaining the TPO lime tree for streetscape amenity, wildlife and shade to reduce high temperatures in increasingly hot summers due to climate change. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity. Informative C: new tree planting is encouraged where space allows for urban greening and ecosystem service benefits.

Received
29 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Perry Vale
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at WOOLSTONE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, WOOLSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 2TR. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 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 116 applications across Perry Vale. 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 2TR
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2025
Last date for comments
12 December 2025
Target decision date
12 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Connick Tree Care
Agent address
New Pond Farm, Woodhatch Road, Reigate, RH2 7QH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14291777
Comments
0
Documents
10
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.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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.

Source: Lewisham

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