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185 Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UF

26/AP/0198Works to a Tree with a TPORefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 12 March 2026

Council decision: Tree Works/TPO - REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

T1 (poplar) - fell to ground level and remove stump. This tree is to be felled in order to facilitate the archaeological investigation, agreed under discharge of Condition 5 and subsequent implementation of Full Planning Permission 21/AP/1812. The CAVAT value of this tree was agreed with the Council on the 24th of October 2024 as ?56,992 (fifty six thousand, nine hundred and ninety two pounds) with removal costs (account for highway management etc.) being in addition to this sum. This sum will be transferred to the Council prior to the removal of this tree, unless the inverse is subsequently agreed with the Council. The Council have agreed (by the above date) that the transfer of the CAVAT sum will fund the planting and aftercare of new trees within the local area. No replacement tree planting will therefore occur as part of this application; Tree Preservation Order (No. 693) 2023 will therefore need to be revoked, as it will protect no remaining trees.

Received
23 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
London Bridge & West Bermondsey
Agent
TMA Environmental Consultants
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated26 Jan
  3. Consult.16 Feb
  4. Target22 Mar
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 185 Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UF. Southwark has handled 539 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in the Tower Bridge conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across London Bridge & West Bermondsey. We hold 2,756 applications in total for the SE1 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
SE1 2UF
Application type
Works to a Tree with a TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 January 2026
Last date for comments
16 February 2026
Target decision date
22 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
TMA Environmental Consultants
Agent address
2 The Stables Cannons Mill Lane Bishop's Stortford CM23 2HJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Tower Bridge
  • Listed building: Grade II: Former London and County BankOn this site
  • Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+1 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 693Part of the site · +1 more
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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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