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Proposal
REAR: ONE Lawson Cypress tree (T1) Ht 6m FELL to ground level. REASON: To allow more light into the garden given the trees size and stature. Informative A: The tree contributes to the urban forest and rear amenity, wildlife and environmental benefits including cooling temperatures in increasingly hot summers with climate change; Informative B: We would like to strongly encourage the planting of one or two small canopy broad-leaf replacement trees to maintain the treed landscape character beside Harefield Road and amenity of Brockley conservation area, for wildlife, screening, and shade to reduce high temperatures in increasingly hot summers due to climate change; please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity; please plant new tree(s) species such as crab apple, whitebeam, pear, Persian Ironwood (Parrotia persica), bird cherry, paperbark maple, hazel, hawthorn, holly, strawberry tree, mulberry, medlar, Albizzia julibrissin, Judas Tree (Cercis siliquastrum) to maintain the treed landscape character of Brockley conservation area, for rear amenity and wildlife habitat. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 10 Nov 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 14 Oct 2026
Documents 5
Decision & officer reports 1
Plans & drawings 1
Application forms 1
Site constraints 9
Checked on 2 November 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
- SE4 1TS
- Received
- 25 Sept 2025
- Validated
- 2 Oct 2025
- Ward
- Brockley
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 13 Nov 2025
- Decision
- Raise No Objection
- Decision date
- 10 Nov 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- Down to Earth Trees Ltd
How this decision compares
Decided in 39 days from validation, 13 days slower than Lewisham's median of 26 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.
Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Lewisham in the last twelve months, from validation. Lewisham decision record →
Public comments
No public comments yet.
Last counted 14 Oct 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Alt. reference
- PP-14339721
- Planning Portal ref
- PP-14339721
- Neighbours
- 8 Oct 2025
- Consultation
- 8 Oct 2025
- Statutory expiry
- 13 Nov 2025
- Env. assessment
- No
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