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High View Court, 65 Horniman Drive, London, SE23 3BJ

DC/25/142046Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 24 November 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

FRONT BOUNDARY: ONE Lime tree (T1) REPOLLARD Ht by 1m from 3.5m to 2.5m Spread by 1m from 3m to 2m back to previous points. Strip Ivy from the canopy down to base of stem to allow future inspections RHB TWO Lime trees (T2-T3) REPOLLARD Ht by 1m from 3.5m to 2.rm Spread by 1m from 3m to 2m back to previous points. REASON: General Maintenance. Informative A: The sensitive management of the trees 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
5 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received5 Nov
  2. Validated5 Nov
  3. Consult.17 Dec
  4. Target17 Dec
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at HIGH VIEW COURT, 65 HORNIMAN DRIVE, LONDON, SE23 3BJ. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker 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 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 3BJ
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 November 2025
Last date for comments
17 December 2025
Target decision date
17 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Trees Uk
Agent address
Longfield Cottage, Nash Lane, Keston, BR2 6AP

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14464935
Comments
0
Documents
6
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

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

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