1 MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

This site has had 3 applications since 2019: 3 approved, 0 refused.

• DC/20/119162 Granted

  1 MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  REAR: ONE Cherry (T1)(ht.8-10m) FELL. Reason: Lifting paving, causing trip hazard, bird faeces causing slip hazard, blocking security camera and light column. Informative: replacement small tree, shrubs, perennials and bulbs for amenity and plants for pollinators to enliven the inner courtyard and outlook for residents would be greatly appreciated. Species such as Cornus Kousa, Viburnum bodnantense Dawn, Stewartia rostrata, apple on M9 dwarf rootstock, witch hazel, Prunus Kojo-no-mai, Styrax japonicus, dogwood, Ceanothus

  Decided 18 Dec 2020 Trees
• DC/19/110662 Granted

  1 MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  REAR: TWO Cherry (T1 & T2) FELL to ground level(approx ht.15m, roots causing trip hazard, pushing up paving, voluntary replacement planting proposed) REAR: THREE Maple (T3, T4 & T5) HEIGHT REDUCE by 3m from 20m to 17m (excessive shading, previous poor pruning) REAR: ONE Cherry (T6) HEIGHT REDUCE by 2m from 15m to 13m (excessive shading, close to buildings) Informative: T3,T4,T5 - THIN by 10% - no objection to including selective branch removal from previous prune points to help alleviate shading and improve branch framework. Informative: Proposed voluntary replacement planting is greatly welcomed and appreciated for visual amenity, biodiversity, health and wellbeing and climate change mitigation.

  Decided 13 Mar 2019 Trees

1. 10 Aug 2020

   Received by Lewisham

2. 9 Sep 2020

   Decision issued: Raise No Objection

3. 25 Sep 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

Lewisham granted permission on 9 September 2020, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

Applications for works to trees cover protected trees: consent under a tree preservation order, or six weeks notice for trees in a conservation area. More in our guide to planning application types.

• FLAT 71, MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  DC/12/081923 Submitted 16 Nov 2012 50 yards away

  Inner Courtyard Area; - TWO Cherry Crown Reduce By Up To 35% & Crown Thin By Up To 15%.

  Granted Trees

• FLAT 71, MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  DC/12/81923 Submitted 16 Nov 2012 50 yards away

  Inner Courtyard Area; - TWO Cherry Crown Reduce By Up To 35% & Crown Thin By Up To 15%.

  Granted Trees

• MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  DC/23/132007 Submitted 22 Jun 2023 50 yards away

  REAR: ONE Hawthorn (T1)(ht:6m) FELL. Reason: tree is blocking the security cameras to the flats, preventing serious incidents from being monitored. Informative A: the decision allows for crown reduction, crown lift or coppice management if this will improve security surveillance while retaining a smaller dimensioned hawthorn for visual amenity. Informative B: please create habitat log piles for wildlife and biodiversity from arisings. Informative C: please plant a replacement tree where suitable and enhance courtyard planting for year-round interest, fragrance and plants for pollinators to compensate for loss of visual amenity if removal of the hawthorn tree is unavoidable.

  Granted Trees 3 docs

• MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  DC/12/081702/FT Submitted 15 Oct 2012 50 yards away

  The installation of a digital aerial system and satellite dishes to the rear of 1-72, Mereton Mansions, Brookmill Road SE8.

  Granted Full applications 7 docs

• MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  DC/12/81702/FT Submitted 15 Oct 2012 50 yards away

  The installation of a digital aerial system and satellite dishes to the rear of 1-72, Mereton Mansions, Brookmill Road SE8.

  Granted Full applications 7 docs

• MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS

  DC/26/144113 Submitted 22 May 2026 50 yards away

  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.

  Granted Trees 6 docs

• DC/26/145119 Awaiting decision

  43 DEVONSHIRE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 3EN

  FRONT: ONE Lime tree (T1) Ht 15m FELL to ground level & treat stump REASON: A remedy to the differential foundation movement at the insured property and to ensure the long-term stability of the building. To limit the extent and need for expensive and disruptive engineering repair works at the insured property. To limit the extent and need for costly CO2e emissions relating to alternative engineering repair works at the insured property. It is the case that an alternative to felling such as pruning or significant 'pollarding' of the tree would not provide a reliable or sustainable remedy to the subsidence in this case. We do not consider that any other potential means of mitigation, including root barriers, would be effective or appropriate in the circumstances. We are satisfied that the evidence obtained following completion of our Arboricultural Implication Assessment report completed 31/01/2024 clearly links the Lime T1 and False Acacia T2 as the cause of damage to the risk address. REPLANTING: Insurers understanding the requirement to offer replacement planting in the event consent to fell is granted. 43 DEVONSHIRE ROAD TREE PRESERVATION ORDER 2024 DC/24/135159

  Received 20 Aug, published by the council 26 Aug 2026 Trees
• DC/26/144620 Granted

  249A KIRKDALE, LONDON, SE26 4QD

  FRONT: THREE Lime (T1,T2,T3)(ht.7-8m) carefully re pollard the crown back to old points aproximately 3 metres of regrowth FRONT: ONE hornbeam (T4)(ht.8m) reduce the overall size of crown by 3 metres. These trees are causing excessive shading

  Received 7 Jul, published by the council 20 Aug 2026 Trees
• DC/26/144984 Granted

  9 EXETER PLACE, LONDON, SE26 6AB

  REAR (fronting Wells Park Rd) ONE Sycamore (T2, in TPO A1)(ht.12-14m) FELL by dismantling to safe standing stem or high stump. Reason: health & safety, the tree is in severe physiological and structural decline, leaning towards the road, several branches have already failed, and although a small amount of live growth remains, the tree has no meaningful long-term viability, the significantly compromised structure presents an unacceptable risk of further branch or whole-tree failure onto highway. The proposed removal is necessary to eliminate the risk. The replacement tree is to be a large canopy species planted as near as practicable to the original location. The County of London (Lewisham No.2) Tree Preservation Order, 1957. Informative A: thank you for proposing 4x replacement trees, 1x is required to be a large canopy tree to replace the TPO tree and to maintain the treed boundary character to Wells Park Road for public streetscape amenity, wildlife and shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change ? Hornbeam, Hop hornbeam, sessile oak, Japanese Pagoda Tree, walnut (Juglans regia), Italian alder or grey alder, Caucasian Elm (Zelkova carpinifolia), small leaved lime, Hackberry (Celtis australis), Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna), Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus dioica) - see further planting details below. Informative B: thank you for planting additional voluntary trees for screening, to improve species diversity, and the setting of the property. Informative C: thank you also for looking to retain a safe standing stem/high stump and creating habitat log piles with some dead wood arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.

  Received 5 Aug, published by the council 10 Aug 2026 Trees
• DC/26/144936 Granted

  12 PRINCETHORPE ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4PF

  REAR: ONE Lombardy Poplar (T1)(ht.16m) CROWN REDUCE by 10-11m to ht.5-6m, REDUCE SPREAD from 10m to 5m to create new pollard. Reason: multi-stemmed tree has had a major stem failure exposing large cavity approx.2m above gd level. Remaining stem above cavity is weighted towards neighbouring properties and a crown reduction to reduce weight and sail above cavity is urgently needed to minimise risk of future failures. Merely reducing the one stem would drastically change the balance of the overall canopy and exposure to wind would be likely to cause more failures on the remaining stems. Crown reduction is required for safety to reduce overall canopy to approximately 5-6m from ground level (please see annotated photo) to create a new pollard. Informative A: thank you for managing the tree by safe reduction to retain as a low pollard for rear amenity, wildlife and canopy shade to reduce heatwave temperatures due to climate change. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.

  Received 3 Aug, published by the council 10 Aug 2026 Trees
• DC/26/145009 Awaiting decision

  CLARENDON HOTEL, 8-16 MONTPELIER ROW, LONDON, SE3 0RW

  REAR: ONE: Beech Tree ( T4) ( TPO T34 of TPO 1976 ) Height approx. 25+m. FELL to ground level. REASON: For health & safety reasons we request the tree be completely felled due to disease. The tree is in a private car park within the hotel boundry.The tree branches are incredibly fragile & prone to breakage.

  Received 10 Aug, published by the council 7 Sep 2026 Trees