Planning application
3 Lawn Crescent Richmond TW9 3NR
Works: Trees
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Back garden - The garden is 19m long and 6.5m wide and faces due south. There are 7 mature trees in our back garden or immediately adjoining. The ash is c. 14m high and wide, the two Bradford Pears (marked B) c. 12m tall, the two palms c. 7m tall, the magnolia (marked M) c. 5m tall. There are at least 8 very large shrubs over 3m tall (marked in green), mostly camellias, and many smaller shrubs and ornamental trees. We wish to remove the arbutus unedo (marked in red). It is now more than 6m tall and 7m wide. It stands 7m from the back of our house close to the garden wall separating us from 2 Lawn Crescent. As the garden is only 6.5m wide, the arbutus now comes more than half way across our back garden and largely blocks the view from our back room, which has large patio doors looking out onto the garden. It also blocks light and sun in our courtyard garden, It has been damaged by high winds on two occasions, snapping off at the top of the bole, which has resulted in a very dense crown. It has been pruned in 2015 and 2018 as it was getting too large, which only seemed to encourage it to grow faster, so that it was soon larger than before. It is now much too large for its position, blocking out much of our view of the rest of the garden and of the other large tre...
As published by the council, reference 24/T0680/TCA
Application record
- Reference
- 24/T0680/TCA
- Type
- Works to Tree/s in Conservation Area
- Status
- Raise No Objection
- Decision
- Raise No objection
- Received
- 26 Aug 2024
- Validated
- 26 Aug 2024
- Decided
- 23 Sep 2024
- Ward
- Kew Ward [KWW]
- Parish
- Kew Village
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- TW9 3NR
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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26 Aug 2024
Received by Richmond upon Thames
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23 Sep 2024
Decision issued: Raise No objection
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8 Sep 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
3 documents on file for this application
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Richmond upon Thames granted permission on 23 September 2024, 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.
About tree works applications
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