Appeal 3321742
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
5 sections
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Section 01
Development description
No verified development description has been extracted from an official decision PDF yet.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue is the effect of the development having regard to trees.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal site comprises a semi-detached house with off-street parking on the driveway to the front. The local neighbourhood is predominantly residential in nature.
The creation of the widened crossover would result in the removal of a mature tree on the highway verge; the Council has objected to its loss. I agree that the specimen provides amenity value in combination with the other trees in the street scene, and its loss would be harmful. There is no evidence before me to demonstrate that the tree would be unlikely to survive for many years to come.
The appellant has suggested that this matter can be addressed by the imposition of a suitable condition for a replacement tree. Whilst this is true in some instances, there has to be a reasonable prospect of a condition being capable of being complied with in order for it to mitigate any adverse effects of the development.
To my mind, a condition requiring a replacement tree would need to relate to land owned by the Council, which lies outside the current appeal site. Moreover, I have not been presented with any specific arrangements to indicate the siting and size – which would need to be relatively large to compensate for the scale of the existing specimen – of the replacement tree. In the absence of such details I cannot be certain that a condition would be capable of being complied with, in order for it to mitigate the adverse effect of the loss of the existing mature street tree. _________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________
I am aware that the appeal property is not listed or located within a conservation area, and that the tree is not a veteran tree or covered by a preservation order. However, these matters do not justify the harm that would arise.
The scheme would therefore result in the loss of a valuable street tree. This would be contrary to Policy 73 of the Bromley Local Plan 2019, which requires proposals for new development to take particular account of existing trees in the interests of visual amenity.
Section 05
Conclusion
Having regard to the foregoing and all issues advanced, the appeal fails.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 212No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 15 August 2023Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 26 July 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3321742
- Application reference
- DC/23/00577/FULL6
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- London Borough of Bromley
- Planning authority code
- E09000006
Casework details
The casework, procedure, development and linking details supplied by the official record.
- Casework type
- Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development type
- Householder developments
- Appeal type reason
- 1. Refused planning permission
- Appeal reason
- Refusal
- Type detail
- Unknown
- Jurisdiction
- Transferred
- Link status
- Not Linked
Site and development
Published appeal-site measurements and planning designations, without the withheld precise location fields.
- Site area
- Not recorded
- Floor space
- Not recorded
- Number of residences
- 0
- Site in Green Belt
- No
- Agricultural holding
- No
- Affects setting of a listed building
- Not recorded
- Historic building grant made
- Not recorded
- Relates to a conservation area
- Not recorded
- Flooding is an issue
- Not recorded
- Site within an AONB
- Not recorded
- Site within an SSSI
- Not recorded
Decision and dates
The published outcome and every imported case date.
- Official decision
- Dismissed
- Decision category
- Dismissed
- Received date
- 9 May 2023
- Valid date
- 9 May 2023
- Start date
- 5 July 2023
- Planning authority decision date
- 17 April 2023
- Appeal decision date
- 15 August 2023
Case administration
Published recovery, call-in, costs and enforcement information for this case.
- Redetermined
- No
- Bespoke
- No
- Date recovered
- Not recorded
- Date not recovered or derecovered
- Not recorded
- Call-in date
- Not recorded
- Costs applied for
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds count
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds
- Not recorded
Source and catalogue history
When this record appeared in the rolling official release and when the catalogue stored it.
- Source
- Planning Inspectorate casework database
- Source data system
- Horizon
- Dataset status
- Current release
- Catalogue record ID
- 37189
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:27
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21