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51 Southbrook Road, London, SE12 8LJ

DC/26/145394Approved

Approved on 29 October 2026

Council decision: Raise No Objection

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

Proposal

REAR: TWO Hawthorn (T1,T2) (ht.5m) FELL. REAR: ONE Leylandii (T3) (ht.3m) FELL. REAR: ONE Hazel Coppice (T4) (ht.4m) FELL. REAR: ONE Apple (T6) (ht.5m) FELL. REASON: The resident is undergoing an extensive garden re-design. REPLANTING PROPOSAL: replace with 13 new trees: 3x Crab apple 'Red Sentinel' 1x Multi-stem Silver Birch, 3x Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku', 1x Fig tree, 3x Olive tree, 1x Pleached apple tree, 1x Magnolia stellata.

Received
14 September 2026
Public comments
1 · last counted 7 November 2026
  1. Received14 Sep
  2. Validated5 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Oct

Decided in 24 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 51 SOUTHBROOK ROAD, LONDON, SE12 8LJ. Lewisham has handled 9,122 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 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. We hold 524 applications in total for the SE12 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SE12 8LJ

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 October 2026

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Lee Manor
  • Article 4 direction: Lee Manor Article 4(2) Direction+1 more

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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