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Car Park Rear Of 1 Upper Green East St Mark's Road Mitcham CR4 2LF

25/T2572Tree WorkApproved

Approved on 13 October 2025

Council decision: Tree Works ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T 1,2 & 3 medium norway maple trees Reduce canopy back to most recent reduction points . approximately 1.5 -2 meters . T 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,& 15 . Mature London Plane Trees Crown reduce back to previous reduction points approx 3-4 meters . Lift canopy to 5 meters over high way . Remove dead & diseased barnches Leaving natural balanced canopy.. T 16 & !7 Sycamore Trees Crown reduce back to most recent reduction points leaving natural balanced canopy. On going maintenance allow more room for taffic prevent damage to property. more light into street & school

Received
29 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Figges Marsh
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Oct

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Car Park Rear Of 1 Upper Green East St Mark's Road Mitcham CR4 2LF. Merton has handled 847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Merton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 877 applications in total for the CR4 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
CR4 2LF
Application type
Tree Work
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2025
Consultation expiry
2 October 2025
Consultation start
9 September 2025
Consultation end
2 October 2025
Last date for comments
2 October 2025
Application expires
24 October 2025
Permission expires
13 October 2028

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

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