Mereton Mansions, Brookmill Road, London, SE8 4HS Data via plota.co.uk

DC/26/144113 - Trees in Conservation Areas Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

FRONT: FIVE: Acer tree (T1-T5) CROWN REDUCTION by 2m from 10m to 8m. SPREAD by 4m from 6m to 2m. REASONS: Routine maintenance and repeat pruning for the health and safety of the trees and to provide light to surrounding gardens. FRONT: THREE: Acer tree (T6,T7,T9) CROWN REDUCTION by 2m from 9m to 7m. CROWN REDUCTION by 3m from 5m to 2m. REASONS: Routine maintenance and repeat pruning for the health and safety of the trees and to provide light to surrounding gardens. FRONT: ONE: Acer tree (T8) CROWN REDUCTION by 2m from 9m to 7m. SPREAD by 3m from 6m to 3m. REASONS: Routine maintenance and repeat pruning for the health and safety of the trees and to provide light to surrounding gardens. REAR: ONE: Acer tree (T10) CROWN REDUCTION by 2m from 12m to 10m. SPREAD 4m from 8m to 4m REASONS: Routine maintenance and repeat pruning for the health and safety of the trees and to provide light to surrounding gardens. REAR: TWO: Acer tree (T11,T12) CROWN REDUCTION by 2m from 12m to 10m. SPREAD by 3m from 5m to 2m REASONS: Routine maintenance and repeat pruning for the health and safety of the trees and to provide light to surrounding gardens. REAR: ONE: Hawthorn (T13) HEIGHT 6.5m. CROWN LIFT to 2.5m above ground level. REASON: Formative pruning REAR: ONE: Crab Apple tree (T14) HEIGHT 7m. FELL to ground level. Reason: tree in rapid decline, dying. REAR: ONE: Acer tree (T15) HEIGHT 14m. FELL to ground level REASON: Tree unable to establish long term, stable lean, asymmetrical crown, suppressed by adj T16, close to property, overhanging adj gardens. REAR: ONE: Acer tree (T16) CROWN LIFT to 3m above ground level. LATERAL REDUCTION by 2m from 10m to 8m at N Compass Point. REASON: Routine maintenance to protect and provide light to neighbouring property. REAR: ONE: Acer tree (T17) CROWN LIFT to 3m above ground level. LATERAL REDUCTION by 2m from 10 to 8m. at N Compass point. REASON: Routine maintenance to protect and provide light to neighbouring property. Note: T5-T9 are outside the Deptford High Street & St Pauls conservation area boundary Informative A: replacement tree planting is encouraged where suitable within the Mereton Mansions site, to maintain tree amenity & urban greening. Informative B: huge thanks for maintaining and retaining the other trees for treed character amenity, wellbeing, wildlife, rainwater run-off mitigation and shade to reduce increasingly high and frequent heatwaves due to climate change. Informative C: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
22 May 2026
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Validated
22 Jul 2026
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Consultation
22 Jul 2026
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Approved
3 Aug 2026

Approved on 3 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 7 Aug 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision notice Decision · 3 Aug 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 2

PDF Tree-survey Case Copy Documents · 26 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Reasons for work statement Case Copy Documents · 26 May 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 2

IMG Photo location plan Photographs · 26 May 2026 View ↗ IMG Photo location plan Photographs · 26 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Redacted Application form Application Form · 26 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 14

4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Carrington House, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 4 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 4 with distances
Historic England ↗
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Deptford High Street & St Pauls Church conservation area
Also 0. 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
Small HMO Northern Extension. 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.
Heritage at risk: Deptford High Street
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Historic England ↗
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: Lewisham 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 ↗
National infrastructure project about 83 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel
The site is about 83 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 701 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 ↗
Opportunity area
Where the London Plan expects significant growth.
Boundaries are indicative and the borough holds the detailed plan.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Inside the Lewisham built-up area; Public transport access: PTAL 6a (excellent), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square; Town centre about 35 m away: Deptford; Metropolitan Open Land about 82 m away.
Not affected
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, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI), 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
Lewisham
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Postcode
SE8 4HS
Received
22 May 2026
Validated
22 Jul 2026
Ward
Deptford
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Case officer
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Target decision
2 Sept 2026
Decision
Raise No Objection
Decision date
3 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Arbortech Tree Services

How this decision compares

Decided in 12 days from validation, 13 days faster than Lewisham's median of 25 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

98%decided within 8 weeks
99%approved
613decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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Last counted 7 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14958054
Planning Portal ref
PP-14958054
Neighbours
22 Jul 2026
Consultation
22 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry
2 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

27 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2023 Approved
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2018 Approved
PRE/18/109479
Within ~100m

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Lewisham
Planning Authority Score
5.8/10
Average
#111 of 296 councils
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Lewisham decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #224 of 296
90%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #192 of 296
69%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #127 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #58 of 296
65%
Minor dwellings approved
117 decided (1-9 homes)
92%
Major dwellings approved
12 decided (10+ homes)
57%
Change of use approved
67 decided
1,303
Total decisions
207 refused in the year to March 2026
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