Planning application
54 GEOFFREY ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1NT
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
REAR: ONE Ash (T1)(ht.9m) FELL. Reason: multi-stemmed specimen with poor unions at the base, ongoing damage to the neighbouring fence and structural cracking in the neighbour's patio, removal to mitigate further risk and prevent additional property damage. A native pollinator will be planted as a replacement. Informative A: huge thank you for replacement tree planting elsewhere in the rear garden, for amenity, wildlife and to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change species such as: elder, crab apple, wayfaring tree, hawthorn, Amelanchier, hazel, quince (Cydonia oblonga,) Magnolia, alder buckthorn, winter flowering cherry, paperbark maple. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity. Informative C: remember to include gravel boards with hedgehog highway holes in fencing.
As published by the council, reference DC/26/143837
Application record
- Reference
- DC/26/143837
- Type
- Trees in Conservation Areas
- Status
- Registered
- Decision
- Granted As published: Raise No Objection
- Received
- 28 Apr 2026
- Validated
- 14 May 2026
- Decided
- 8 Jun 2026
- Ward
- Brockley
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
- Decision by
- Delegated
- Postcode
- SE4 1NT
Site history
Applications at this address on the Lewisham register
This site has had 2 applications since 2019: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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DC/19/113211 Granted
54 GEOFFREY ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1NT
The demolition of the existing upper ground floor rear extension at 54 Geoffrey Road, SE4 and construction of a first floor rear extension, construction of a rear dormer roof extension together with the installation of 1 x No. rooflight in the flank roofslope, and alterations to the lower ground floor fenestration on the side and rear elevations.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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28 Apr 2026
Received by Lewisham
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14 May 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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8 Jun 2026
Decision issued: Raise No Objection
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25 Jul 2026
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Amber Tree Care Agent, a tree-works contractor registered in London
Active · incorporated 2007 · London
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Lewisham granted permission on 8 June 2026, 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.
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