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Sycamore Tree in Courtyard
Photograph taken by Richard Carpenter, 31 May 2002

TREE PRESERVATION - THE SITUATION AS OF MAY 3d, 2002

You can apply for a Tree Preservation Order for any tree you think should be preserved, simply write to Camden Council, ask for an inspection of the tree, and include the species of the tree. If possible, also include a photograph of the tree you want listed.

The person to contact at Camden Council is:

Kevin Fisher
[email protected]

According to Louis Wiggett at Camden Council, on May 3d, 2002, our tree isn't in a Conservation Area and it isn't listed as a protected tree (unlike the tree near North Crescent and Chenies Street).

If it is a slow-growing species, it might be possible that it is a tree planted for the original building in 1888 (Octavia Hill, who arranged for Ellen Mary Rope's angel panels to be placed in the Chapel, was also a great believer in pleasant  garden spaces in communal shared areas).  This isn't very likely; it seems significantly smaller in girth than the tree near North Crescent, which itself was a very small tree in a 1906 photograph of Chenies Street. However, our tree was planted before the Second World War; Patsy Futatsugi remembers the tree  being very large in1947 when she moved to the building at the age of five. Of course, to a child of five, it may be that any tree seems very large.