Merchant Taylors Almshouses, Brandram Road, London, SE13 5RX

Proposal

FRONT (Brandram Rd): ONE Lime (T1)(ht.10m) CROWN LIFT to 4.5m above ground level, remove epicormic. Reason: to prevent damage to cars. FRONT (Brandram Rd): ONE Beech (T4) LATERAL REDUCE single low limb over car park on NE compass point. Reason: clearance over car park. FRONT (Brandram Rd): ONE Lime (T5) remove deadwood. Reason: safety maintenance, overhanging public footpath. CENTRAL: ONE Chestnut (T8)(ht.13m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 4m from 13m to ht.9m, REDUCE SPREAD by 2m from 8m to 6m and shape. Reason: large dead branch failure, unbalanced crown, top section of tree is dead. CENTRAL: ONE Prunus (T12) CROWN LIFT to 2.5m above ground level, install prop. Reason: unbalanced crown, use of prop to prevent tree falling onto path. FRONT (Lee High Rd): ONE Lime (T16) LATERAL REDUCE SPREAD by 1.5m from 9m to 7.5m from building on SE compass, CROWN LIFT to 4m above ground level. Reason: clearance from historic chapel building. FRONT (Lee High Rd): ONE Lime (T19)(ht.14m) remove epicormic up to crown break. Reason: head height clearance. FRONT (Lee High Rd): ONE Lime (T28) remove epicormic up to crown break at ht.4m. Reason: head height clearance. FRONT (Lee High Rd): ONE dead Elm (T30)(ht.18m) FELL. Duty to replace applies with a large canopy species - see informative B below for further details. Reason: dead, safety by public footpath and road, the proposed replacement tree needs to be a large canopy species, not birch ? please see species selection in informative B below. FRONT (Brandram Rd): ONE dead Elder (T37)(ht.8m) POLLARD to MONOLITH by 2m from 8m to ht.6m. Duty to replace applies with another elder. Reason: overhanging pedestrian path and vehicle access to car park, reduce to retain safe dead tree to support ivy. CENTRAL (front no.1 Almshouse): ONE Elder (T41)(ht.8m) REDUCE HEIGHT by 2m from 8m to ht.6m, remove deadwood. Reason: to encourage regeneration, safety next to path CENTRAL (front no.38 Almshouse): ONE Camellia reduce by 30% - exempt works. Informative A: the landowner has a duty to plant a replacement tree when a tree in a conservation area is removed because it is dead, or presents an immediate risk of serious harm, para 121 Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, government guidance 6 March 2014. Informative B: T30 dead Elm ? duty to replace applies - a large canopy replacement species is required to be selected from: Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia), sessile oak, hornbeam, Tulip tree, Hop hornbeam, common walnut (Juglans regia), Japanese pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum), beech, copper beech, small leaved lime, Indian Horse Chestnut, Italian or grey alder, Holm oak, Turkey oak, or a resistant elm, suggest planted in corner by road junction of Brandram Road with Lee High Road where there is space to develop. Informative C: T37 dead elder ? duty to replace applies with another elder ? the retention of safe dead stems of T37 for wildlife and biodiversity is hugely appreciated. Informative D: huge thank you for sensitive tree management for landscape setting of the Almshouses, streetscape amenity, wildlife habitat, environmental benefits such as reducing air pollution form the busy Lee High Road and providing shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change. Informative E: please create habitat log piles with arisings to mitigate wildlife and biodiversity loss. Note of previous case: TPO application DC/24/136948: Condition to replace TPO Zelkova carpinifolia (TPO T1/T3 in Greengage tree survey). Before felling, the landowner may wish to obtain advice from an arboricultural consultant who specialises in subsidence cases on possible alternative mitigation to avoid felling the Zelkova. Should the Zelkova be felled a replacement TPO Zelkova carpinifolia will be required. Note of previous case: 6-week notice DC/24/137031: Duty to replace T7 dead beech and T36 dead cherry. T7 dead beech - replace with a large canopy species selected from: Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia) oak, hornbeam, Tulip tree, Poplar, Hop hornbeam, walnut, Japanese pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum), beech, copper beech; T36 dead cherry - replace with a cherry such as: The Great White Cherry, (Prunus Tai-Haku), Tibetan cherry (Prunus serrula), Prunus sargentii ? RNO.