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26/02267/TPO - Consent under Tree Preservation Orders Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

All veteran tree management works (from phase 2 onwards) to all trees as outlined within the submitted Arboricultural Report (dated 23.01.2017). Trees tagged from 10-67. Works originally approved under ref. . SUBJECT TO TPO BB & OUDC 1 (W2) We would like to apply for these works with ongoing consent, as long as the specification is adhered to. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Jun 2026
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Approved
20 Aug 2026

Approved on 20 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 22 Aug 2026

Documents 9

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision Notice · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Officer Report Officer Delegation Report · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 6

PDF Survey 1 of 6 PDF · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Survey 5 of 6 PDF · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Survey 4 of 6 PDF · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Survey 6 of 6 PDF · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Survey 3 of 6 PDF · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Survey 2 of 6 PDF · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted.pdf PDF · 4 Jun 2026 View ↗

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Associated applications 2

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Site constraints 6

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm.
Registered park or garden: Holwood Park
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
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: Aqma 2020
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 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
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: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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
Bromley
Application type
Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Postcode
BR2 6HZ
Received
4 Jun 2026
Validated
4 Jun 2026
Ward
Bromley Common & Holwood
Case officer
Show
Target decision
30 Jul 2026
Decision
GRANTED
Decision date
20 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Down To Earth Trees Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 77 days from validation, 42 days slower than Bromley's median of 35 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

74%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
348decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 22 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by
7 Jul 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
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2023 Withdrawn
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2021 Approved
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Bromley
Planning Authority Score
4.4/10
Below average
#178 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Bromley ranks #143 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Bromley is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 79% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 79% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Bromley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
77%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #276 of 296
79%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #280 of 296
66%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #143 of 296
33%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #72 of 296
63%
Minor dwellings approved
70 decided (1-9 homes)
88%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
50%
Change of use approved
42 decided
2,164
Total decisions
500 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings