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65 St Joseph's Vale, London, SE3 0XG

DC/25/141736Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 12 January 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

REAR (no.65, land adj rail track): SIX groups Sycamore (in G1 in TPO) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 3m from 11.5m to ht.8.5m, REDUCE RADIUS by 1-1.5m, to previous prune points from crown reduction in 2020 ref.DC/20/119240. Reason: routine repeat maintenance for safety beside the rail line and property, squirrel damage, to retain TPO amenity and the designated railsides linear green infrastructure (SINC) for wildlife and screening. The London Borough of Lewisham (Heath Lane) Tree Preservation Order 1973. Informative A: huge thank you for retaining the trees for amenity, wildlife beside the linear green infrastructure rail-sides designated a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC), improvement in air quality, flood mitigation and shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.

Received
7 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackheath
  1. Received7 Oct
  2. Validated8 Dec
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target2 Feb
  5. Decided12 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 65 ST JOSEPH'S VALE, LONDON, SE3 0XG. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 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 167 applications across Blackheath. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the SE3 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
SE3 0XG
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 December 2025
Last date for comments
2 February 2026
Target decision date
2 February 2026
Decision issued
14 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
17 Knowles Meadow, Hillbrow, West Sussex, GU33 7QW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4
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.

  • Conservation area: Blackheath
  • 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 (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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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