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Greenholm School 95 Brighton Road Sutton SM2 5SJ

TREE2025/00050Fell a Preserved TreeApproved

Approved on 24 July 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

874 - Deodar Cedar - Crown reduction to allow a 3m clearance from building. 892 - Deodar Cedar - Reduce primary branch ends by 2.5m. 897 - Strawberry Tree - Remove Northerly limb, with cross sectional shear crack at 3m high, overhanging school entrance. 902 - Sycamore - Crown reduction to allow a 1.5m clearance from building. 925 - Holm Oak - Crown reduction by 2m. 930 - Holm Oak - Crown reduction to allow a 2m clearance from building. G5 - Common Beech - Boundary Group - Crown reductionto allow a 0.5m clearance from school hut. 943 - Common Lime - Remove Basal growth and crown lift to 2.5m. 953 - Norway Maple - Fell.

Received
4 June 2025
Ward
Sutton South
Agent
W J Kent Tree Surgeons Ltd
  1. Received4 Jun
  2. Validated4 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Jul
  5. Decided24 Jul

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Greenholm School 95 Brighton Road Sutton SM2 5SJ. Sutton has handled 66 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Sutton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Sutton South. We hold 537 applications in total for the SM2 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at London Borough of Sutton were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SM2 5SJ
Application type
Fell a Preserved Tree
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 June 2025
Target decision date
30 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
W J Kent Tree Surgeons Ltd
Agent address
Coulsdon Area Farm Lime Tree Avenue Cane Hill park Coulsdon CR5 3GB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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: Sutton

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