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2 Dorset Road Wimbledon SW19 3HA

24/T2184Tree WorkApproved

Approved on 16 September 2024

Council decision: Tree Works ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

MER (211) - SYCAMORE - REDUCE CROWN BACK TO PREVIOUS CUTTING POINTS BY APPROX. 6-8 FT ALL ROUND. DEADWOOD AND APPROX. 10% THIN CANOPY. CONSERVATION AREA T2 - SILVER BIRCH REDUCE HEIGHT BY APPROX 6-8 FT AND SIDES BY APPROX 4-5FT BACK TO PREVIOUS CUTTING POINTS. THINK CROWN BY 10-20% OF EMPICORMIC GROWTH. DEADWOOD. T3 - BAY REDUCE HEIGHT BY 4 FT LEAVING A HEIGHT OF 10FT AFTER CUT. AT PREVIOUS CUTTING POINTS. HEDGE CUT SIDES TO SHAPE. T4 - SILVER BIRCH - REDUCE IN HEIGHT BY 6-8 FEET AT A SUITABLE GROWTH POINT. LEAVING A HEIGHT AFTER CUT AT 20FT. DEADWOOD.

Received
7 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Merton Park
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated8 Aug
  3. Consult.31 Aug
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 2 Dorset Road Wimbledon SW19 3HA. Merton has handled 847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Merton's typical decision time. The site is in the John Innes (Merton Park) conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 125 applications across Merton Park. We hold 2,555 applications in total for the SW19 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
SW19 3HA
Application type
Tree Work
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 August 2024
Consultation expiry
31 August 2024
Consultation start
8 August 2024
Consultation end
31 August 2024
Last date for comments
31 August 2024
Target decision date
18 September 2024
Application expires
2 October 2024
Permission expires
16 September 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: John Innes (Merton Park)
  • 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 (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: Merton

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