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The Woodlands 118 Cavendish Road Colliers Wood London SW19 2EZ

25/T1966Tree WorkApproved

Approved on 21 August 2025

Council decision: Tree Works ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

REAR OF SITE: TREE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND LEANING TO BE REMOVED. FRONT OF SITE: 3 TREES TO BE PRUNED BACK FROM BUILDING.

Received
24 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colliers Wood
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated8 Jul
  3. Consult.31 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Woodlands 118 Cavendish Road Colliers Wood London SW19 2EZ. Merton has handled 847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Colliers Wood. 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 2EZ
Application type
Tree Work
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 July 2025
Consultation expiry
31 July 2025
Consultation start
8 July 2025
Consultation end
31 July 2025
Last date for comments
31 July 2025
Application expires
19 August 2025
Permission expires
21 August 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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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