REAR: ONE Sycamore (T3) (ht.12m) FELL.Reason: Clay shrinkage subsidence damage at neighbouring property 141 Pepys Road, See related case DC/26/144890 to fell 2x lime (T1 & T2) at no.141. Informative A: to encourage crown reduction not fell, due to the lack of evidence from site investigations to implicate the trees in the structural issue at no.141 Pepys Road, that the steeply sloping site and faulty drains may be more significant considerations and felling will be a loss to rear amenity, wildlife, shade to reduce increasingly high summer temperatures due to climate change, and mitigating rainfall runoff. Informative B: site investigation reports show: no Sycamore and no Lime roots in soil analysis ? only Prunus roots (such as cherry, laurel) and possibly Forsythia, the Arboricultural report assumes there will be Sycamore and Lime tree roots below foundations without evidence; the soil is not desiccated in TP/BH2 and at only one level in TP/BH1 at 2m depth, 0.8m below where roots were found; the engineer report considers the faulty drains are linked to the ground movement; the foundations in TP/BH1 and TP/BH2 are shallow (400mm & 800mm), the crack damage category at house no.141 is slight <5mm; no level monitoring provided. Informative C: please create habitat log piles with arisings for wildlife and biodiversity. Informative D: replacement tree planting encouraged with NHBC low water demand tree species.

139A PEPYS ROAD, LONDON, SE14 5SG