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25 Earlsthorpe Road, London, SE26 4PD

DC/25/141981Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 12 January 2026

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

FRONT: One Leylandii (T1)(ht.2.5m) FELL. Reason: tree grown too large for small front garden, causing structural damage to property and blocking light to front window. REAR: One Apple (T2)(ht.2m) FELL. Reason: tree is leaning, is being propped up and about to fall, to be replaced with another apple tree in the rear garden. REAR SIDE: One Cherry (T3)(ht.4m) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by 1.5m to ht.2.5m, CROWN THIN By 10%. Reason: general maintenance. Informative A: huge thank you for proposed replacement for rear apple (T2) and for retaining rear apple (T3) for streetscape amenity, wildlife and shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change. Informative B: frontage replacement planting is encouraged with shrubs and perennials for urban greening amenity and wildlife benefits. Informative C: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.

Received
30 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sydenham
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated16 Dec
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided12 Jan

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 25 EARLSTHORPE ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4PD. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Sydenham. We hold 2,166 applications in total for the SE26 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
SE26 4PD
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
16 December 2025
Last date for comments
27 January 2026
Target decision date
27 January 2026
Decision issued
14 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14413882
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.

  • Conservation area: Sydenham Thorpes
  • 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.

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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