Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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30 WOOD VALE, LONDON, SE23 3EE
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FRONT: ONE Lime (T1, TPO T11) CROWN REDUCE HEIGHT by up to 2.5m from 7m to approx. ht.4.5m, REDUCE SPREAD by 1.5m from 3.5m to 2m (and remove climbing rose from upper canopy - exempt works).Reason: general maintenance of previously pollarded tree.The London Borough of Lewisham (2-54 Wood Vale) Tree Preservation Order 1976.Informative A: huge thank you for retaining the lime tree and front garden side hedges for urban greening amenity, wildlife, wellbeing, flood mitigation and shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change and in support of the road's name of Wood Vale. Informative B: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity.
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View council map| Document | Published | Action |
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| Decision noticeDecision · PDF | 10 Feb 2026 | View |
| Photo of treePhotographs | 29 Jan 2026 | View |
| Sketch plan & statementCase Copy Documents · PDF | 29 Jan 2026 | View |
| Sketch plan & statementCase Copy Documents · PDF | 29 Jan 2026 | View |
| Photo of treePhotographs | 29 Jan 2026 | View |
| Application formApplication Form · PDF | 29 Jan 2026 | View |
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Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand pending consideration, approved, refused and withdrawn planning applications. Compare status labels and find the documents explaining each outcome.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.