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2026/3279/T - Notification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

IN LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS (SEE MAP): 4 x London Planes (T25, T27, T29, T31) - Crown lift each tree to provide approx. 5m clearance over grass area and improve light levels to young suppressed cherry trees. Lift each tree to a neat and even level, ensuring all cuts are made to suitable secondary growth points. 1 x Judas Tree (Cercis siliquastrum) (Judas tree) (T22) - Reduce crown height and radial spread by approx. 1m - 1.5m, to produce a rounded framework for uniform future regrowth. 1 x Mulberry (T36) - Reduce western crown by approx. 2m to minimize issues of encroachment. Crown lift to approx. 3m to a neat and even level maintaining shape and form and ensuring all cuts are made to suitable secondary growth points. 1 x Mulberry (T38) - Reduce previously reduced southern crown back to the vicinity of previous reduction points, (approx. 1m - 1.5m of established regrowth). Crown lift to provide approx. 4m all around to a neat and even level, ensuring all cuts are made to suitable secondary growth points. 1 x London Plane (T40) - Reduce 2 x over extended branches by approx. 3m -4m which protrude to east out of the main crown form, back into the overall crown profile, ensuring all cuts are made to suitable secondary growth points. 2 x London Planes (T48 & T64) - Crown lift each tree to provide approx. 5m - 6m clearance all round to a neat and even level, ensuring all cuts are made to suitable secondary growth points. 1 x Laburnum (T51) - Remove 1 x defective stem (west) with splits and cracks and dieback, back to main bole. 1 x Multi stemmed Gleditsia (TG60) - Remove broken and suspended branches from canopy. Reduce southern crown which is overextended from main canopy shape, by approx. 4m - 5m to prevent future branch failures. Crown lift to provide approx. 5m clearance all round to a neat and even level, ensuring all cuts are made to suitable secondary growth points in the upper canopy - Remove broken and suspended branches from canopy. Reduce southern crown whic Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
14 Aug 2026
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Approved
3 Sept 2026

Approved on 3 Sept 2026 · Last checked 17 Aug 2026

Site constraints 12

Bloomsbury 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 ↗
Article 4 direction
Basements. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Archaeological priority area
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: Camden 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 ↗
30 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Western Boundary Wall, Gates and Porters Lodge, Grade II, about 5 m from the postcode pin · 6 Grade I, 4 Grade II*, 20 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.
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Historic England ↗
National infrastructure project about 395 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel
The site is about 395 m from the project boundary. Waste water treatment, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: London Strategic Heat Main Project (at pre-application, about 879 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Registered park or garden about 22 m away: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Central activities zone
The core of central London in the London Plan.
Offices, culture and the other strategic functions of the centre take priority over new housing here.
Also on the record
Inside the Camden built-up area; Public transport access: PTAL 6b (excellent), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square; Priority habitat about 13 m away: Deciduous woodland; Designated open space about 4 m away.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) 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
Camden
Application type
Notification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area
Postcode
WC2A 3TL
Received
14 Aug 2026
Validated
14 Aug 2026
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
Case officer
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Decision date
3 Sept 2026
Applicant
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Agent
Down to Earth Trees Ltd.

How this decision compares

Decided in 20 days from validation, 8 days faster than Camden's median of 28 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 98% of tree and landscaping works here are.

98%decided within 8 weeks
98%approved
1,419decided in the last year

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

Camden
Planning Authority Score
3.1/10
Poor
#231 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Camden is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #242 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Camden decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #149 of 296
88%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #215 of 296
49%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #242 of 296
41%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #158 of 296
90%
Minor dwellings approved
467 decided (1-9 homes)
80%
Major dwellings approved
10 decided (10+ homes)
93%
Change of use approved
46 decided
1,973
Total decisions
234 refused in the year to March 2026