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26B Cottenham Park Road West Wimbledon SW20 0SA

23/T3535Tree WorkApproved

Approved on 22 January 2024

Council decision: Tree Works ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Turkey Oak - Redcue the crown by 2.5 metres in hieght, reue the side crown by 1.5 metres, prune back form the building to give 2 metres clearance. Thin the crown by 10%, raise the low secondary branches by 1-1.5 metres. Tree height 14 metres, crown spread 8 metres, Maximum pruning wound diameter, 8cm.

Received
8 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Village
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.11 Jan
  4. Target19 Jan
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 26B Cottenham Park Road West Wimbledon SW20 0SA. Merton has handled 847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Merton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 406 applications across Village. We hold 1,803 applications in total for the SW20 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at London Borough of Merton were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SW20 0SA
Application type
Tree Work
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2023
Consultation expiry
11 January 2024
Consultation start
19 December 2023
Consultation end
11 January 2024
Last date for comments
11 January 2024
Target decision date
19 January 2024
Application expires
2 February 2024
Permission expires
22 January 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
45 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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: Merton

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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