73 Horniman Drive, London, SE23 3BU
Approved on 20 October 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
FRONT:ONE Birch (T1)(ht10cm)CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 3m to 7m from 10m (by 30%). LATERAL REDUCTION by 1.9m from 6.5m to 4.6m Reason: routine 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
- 2 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Forest Hill
- Agent
- Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived2 Oct
- ValidatedValidated3 Oct
- Consult.Consultation14 Nov
- TargetTarget Date14 Nov
- DecidedDecided20 Oct
Decided in 17 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 73 HORNIMAN DRIVE, LONDON, SE23 3BU. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 18 days, 5 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications 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 3BU
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 14 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 14 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
- Agent address
- 28, Boveney Road, LONDON, SE23 3NN
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20209 Sep
SIDE: ONE Hornbeam (T1)(ht.8-10m
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasDC/20/118330 - 20152 Dec
T1- 20% crown reduction to silver birch at the front of the property. This crown of this tree has again grown…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreasDC/15/094678 - 20098 Jun
Tree
WithdrawnTrees in Conservation AreasLE/61/73/TW - 200930 Apr
The provision of a hardstanding and brick block driveway at 73 Horniman Drive SE23.
ApprovedFull Planning PermissionDC/09/071466/FT - 200831 Jan
Crown reduce by 30% a Hornbeam tree to the rear and a Silver Birch tree to the front of 73 Horniman Drive…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation Areas08/068017
Source: Lewisham
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