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47 Benson Road, SE23 3RG

LE/53/147/TPReserved MattersWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 15 December 2008

Council decision: Withdrawn Returned to Applicant

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

Proposal

Details of tree work, namely, repollard to previous points and remove basal and epicormic growth from a row of Lime trees to the front ; remove dead wood from an Oak tree, crown thin by 20% and crown lift to 3.5m a Pear tree, fell two dying Apple trees and reduce by 50% a third Apple tree, crown lift to 2.5m over pavement a group of Ash trees, all to the rear of McLellan House, 47 Benson Road, SE23.

Received
15 July 2008
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated15 Jul
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Dec

Decided in 153 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 47 Benson Road, SE23 3RG. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 153 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

75% of outline 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 3RG
Application type
Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 July 2008
Consultation expiry
5 August 2008
Consultation end
5 August 2008
Neighbour consultation end
5 August 2008
Application expires
9 September 2008

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
5 August 2008
Site notice end
5 August 2008

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: Forest Hill
  • Article 4 direction: Forest Hill Article 4(3) 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

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© 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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