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PA26/1245 - Works to Trees Under TPO Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Poplar 1 - To reduce height by approx 2-3m leaving height 18m and width 10m Poplar 2 - To reduce 2-3m leaving height 17m and width 9.5m Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
1 Apr 2026
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Approved
15 May 2026

Approved on 15 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 12 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 15

T0037/1970 - T1 - SycamoreT0037/1970 - T2 - Lombardy Poplar 'Italica'T0037 - T25 - Poplar TreeT0037/1970 - T3 - Lombardy Poplar 'Italica'
Mill Hill conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Public byway open to all traffic 15 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Local nature reserve 20 m away: Barnes Common
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Archaeological priority area: &nbsp
An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.
The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.
Air quality management area: Richmond AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Habitat Restoration-Creation
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
3 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: The Mill Hill, Grade II, 45 m away · 3 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Show all 3 with distances
Historic England ↗
T0037/1970 - T1 - SycamoreCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
T0037/1970 - T2 - Lombardy Poplar 'Italica'Council record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
T0037 - T25 - Poplar TreeCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
T0037/1970 - T3 - Lombardy Poplar 'Italica'Council record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
Metropolitan Open Land 14 m away; Priority habitat 18 m away: Good quality semi improved grassland; Open access land 16 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Richmond upon Thames
Application type
Works to Trees Under TPO
Postcode
SW13 0HS
Received
1 Apr 2026
Validated
1 Apr 2026
Ward
Mortlake & Barnes Common Ward [MRB]
Case officer
Show
Target decision
27 May 2026
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
15 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Agent
Les West

How this decision compares

Decided in 44 days from validation, 13 days slower than Richmond upon Thames's median of 31 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 98% of tree and landscaping works here are.

98%decided within 8 weeks
98%approved
501decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Richmond upon Thames in the last twelve months, from validation. Richmond upon Thames decision record →

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved
Barnes Common Land Surrounding Boundary Wall Of Van Buren Cottage Queens Ride Barnes SW13 0JF
Clockwise around garden: Western boundary on Common: T1- Sycamore x2: reduce back no furt…
22/T0156/TCA
Richmond upon Thames
Planning Authority Score
4.4/10
Below average
#182 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Richmond upon Thames ranks #130 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Richmond upon Thames is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 82% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 82% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Richmond upon Thames decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
81%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #257 of 296
82%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #268 of 296
69%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #130 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #104 of 296
68%
Minor dwellings approved
181 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
3 decided (10+ homes)
47%
Change of use approved
17 decided
1,888
Total decisions
358 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings