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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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MERETON MANSIONS, BROOKMILL ROAD, LONDON, SE8 4HS
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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 4mREASONS: 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 2mREASONS: 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 pruningREAR: 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 levelREASON: 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 boundaryInformative 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.
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View council map| Document | Published | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Decision noticeDecision · PDF | 3 Aug 2026 | View |
| Tree-surveyCase Copy Documents · PDF | 26 May 2026 | View |
| Reasons for work statementCase Copy Documents | 26 May 2026 | View |
| Photo location planPhotographs | 26 May 2026 | View |
| Photo location planPhotographs | 26 May 2026 | View |
| Application formApplication Form · PDF | 26 May 2026 | View |
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