208 Albyn Road, London, SE8 4JQ
Approved on 2 March 2026
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
REAR: ONE Cherry (T1)(ht.10m) FELL. Reason: The tree is too large and is impacting owners and neighbouring properties, including reducing sunlight and with signs of visible roots. Informative A: for any issues with overhanging branches from the nature reserve, please contact the council via email biodiversity@lewisham.gov.uk as given on Lewisham council website: https://lewisham.gov.uk/inmyarea/openspaces/nature-reserves/brookmill-nature-reserve Informative B: a native replacement tree is encouraged for rear amenity and wildlife such as: hawthorn, hazel, holly, elder, alder buckthorn. Informative C: please retain a high trunk stump and create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.
- Received
- 27 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Brockley
- ReceivedReceived27 Jan
- ValidatedValidated27 Jan
- Consult.Consultation10 Mar
- TargetTarget Date10 Mar
- DecidedDecided2 Mar
Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 208 ALBYN ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4JQ. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker 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 145 applications across Brockley. We hold 385 applications in total for the SE8 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
- SE8 4JQ
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 10 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 10 March 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Brookmill Road
- Article 4 direction: Brookmill Road Conservation Area/ Article 4 Direction+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.
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© 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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