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Dulwich College Sports Club Pond Cottages College Road London Southwark SE21 7LE

26/AP/1019Works to a Tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 20 May 2026

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to tree with a TCA: T1- T7. Poplar Trees. All 12 metres in height and 8 metres in width. Cut back by 1 metre, leaving the tree 7 metres in width, tree has become overgrown, causing a lot of fallen debris to fall in the neighbour swimming pool on Hambledon Place. Thin trees by 15% to allow more light into the garden and just enough to still be useful for screening. Situated on the boundary of Dulwich College sports ground.

Received
9 April 2026
Ward
Dulwich Wood
Agent
Acacia Tree Surgeons Ltd
  1. Received9 Apr
  2. Validated10 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Dulwich College Sports Club Pond Cottages College Road London Southwark SE21 7LE. Southwark has handled 539 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in the Dulwich Village conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 83 applications across Dulwich Wood. We hold 1,063 applications in total for the SE21 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
SE21 7LE
Application type
Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dulwich

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 April 2026
Target decision date
21 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Acacia Tree Surgeons Ltd
Agent address
Acacia House Tatsfield Approach Road Tatsfield Westerham TN16 2JT

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Dulwich Village
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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