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Falcon Cottage 22 Western Lane SW12 8JS

2024/3124Work to trees in conservation areaApproved

Approved on 15 October 2024

Council decision: Allow Works, No Tree Preservation OrderDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Magnolia grandiflora: Remove to allow pittosporum to thrive without competition. T2 Silver Birch: Reduce 2 x upright branches by lengths of 2m.

Received
11 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Balham
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated7 Oct
  3. Consult.11 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Falcon Cottage 22 Western Lane SW12 8JS. Wandsworth has handled 1,482 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wandsworth's typical decision time. The site is in the Nightingale Lane conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 148 applications across Balham. We hold 1,196 applications in total for the SW12 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at London Borough of Wandsworth were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SW12 8JS
Application type
Work to trees in conservation area
Development type
Not relevant (trees, conservation areas, etc)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 October 2024
Last date for comments
11 September 2024
Application expires
23 October 2024
Permission expires
15 October 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
16 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Nightingale Lane
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Wandsworth

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