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11 Drake Road, London, SE4 1QH

DC/26/143334Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 17 March 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

FRONT: ONE Dead Cherry (T1)(ht.5m) FELL. Duty to replace applies. Reason: health & safety, the tree is dead, located adjacent to a public footpath, privately owned. Informative A: the landowner has a duty to plant another tree of an appropriate size and species when a tree is removed in a conservation area because it is dead or presents an immediate risk of serious harm. Ref. Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, guidance, para 121. Informative B: replacement tree species to be selected from: cherry, hawthorn, crab apple, quince (Cydonia oblonga), hazel, alder buckthorn, holly, Laburnum, elder - for amenity, wildlife and shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change. Informative C: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.

Received
12 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brockley
Agent
Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated13 Mar
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 4 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 11 DRAKE ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1QH. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 7 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 145 applications across Brockley. We hold 647 applications in total for the SE4 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
SE4 1QH
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 March 2026
Last date for comments
19 March 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Foxy Arboriculture Ltd
Agent address
28, Boveney Road, LONDON, SE23 3NN

Planning decision

Case officer
Valerie Harris
Statutory period
6 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14776531
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
4

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: Brockley
  • Article 4 direction: Brockley Conservation Area+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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