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1 Vicars Hill, London, SE13 7JB

DC/26/143676Trees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 11 May 2026

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

FRONT: ONE Cherry (T1)(ht.12m) FELL. FRONT: ONE Cypress (T2)(ht.12m) FELL. Reason: clay shrinkage subsidence damage at subject property. Informative A: thank you for retaining TG1 and H1 for amenity, wildlife and reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.

Received
14 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ladywell
Agent
MWA Arboriculture Ltd
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.26 May
  4. Target26 May
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 1 VICARS HILL, LONDON, SE13 7JB. Lewisham has handled 1,006 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 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 169 applications across Ladywell. We hold 980 applications in total for the SE13 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
SE13 7JB
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
21 April 2026
Last date for comments
26 May 2026
Target decision date
26 May 2026
Decision issued
14 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
MWA Arboriculture Ltd
Agent address
Unit 8 Stephenson House, Horsley Business Centre, Horsley, NE15 0NY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14857229
Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
5

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: Ladywell
  • Article 4 direction: Ladywell 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.

© 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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