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55 Cobourg Road London Southwark SE5 0HU

26/AP/0079Works to a Tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: Tree Works/Conservation Area - GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to trees in a conservation area: 2 x Sycamore trees - Crown reduction to previous reduction points. T1 - Sycamore appr 16m. Reduce crown appr. with 3-3.5m all around to appr. 12m. T2 - Sycamore appr. 14m. Reduce crown appr. by 4m. all around to 10m. That tree has a huge pocket of decay in the main trunk with vertical split on the main union. Needs significant reduction on the weight of the crown to minimise the risk of falling down.

Received
12 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Old Kent Road
Agent
Tree Star Maintenance Ltd
  1. Received12 Jan
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target23 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 55 Cobourg Road London Southwark SE5 0HU. Southwark has handled 539 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in the Cobourg Road conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 145 applications across Old Kent Road. We hold 1,312 applications in total for the SE5 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at London Borough of Southwark were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE5 0HU
Application type
Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Peckham And Nunhead

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2026
Last date for comments
2 February 2026
Target decision date
23 February 2026
Permission expires
12 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tree Star Maintenance Ltd
Agent address
79 Ash Road Sutton SM3 9LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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: Southwark

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