Paul McCartney asks for permission to prune protected oak at his £10m townhouse to give neighbours more light in their garden
Paul McCartney has asked for planning permission to prune seven trees. One of the trees, a Holm oak, sits on the boundary of Paul's home.
He has applied to prune a protected oak tree at his £10 million home - because not enough light is getting into his neighbours' garden.
Agents for Paul filed a planning application to prune seven trees at the Regency townhouse in August.
The tree at the centre of the application is a Holm oak which straddles the boundary between Sir Paul's St John’s Wood property and his neighbour.
His representatives asked for the oak to undergo tree crown lifting. The process is used to reduce weight from a tree and allow more light to pass through the branches.
Planning documents submitted to his local council state: ‘Crown raise by 1.5m on the boundary to admit more light to [neighbouring property].’
Alongside the Holm oak, Paul's planning agent has asked the local council to cut back a Hornbeam and Indian bean tree as well as remove a rowan tree and replace it with a Winter's bark.
The agents also requested that two lime trees be cut to remove 'epicormic growth’.
Paul was previously locked in a row with council bosses over cutting back a thin crown of a Birch tree, a Hornbeam and two Sycamores in 2019.
Paul's representatives lodged the plans after realising that his back garden was too dark and not getting enough light.
But planning chiefs told him that he was not giving the council enough detail about what he intended to do with the trees and they withdrew it.
A later revised application which was approved asked to chop an additional four trees down which included an evergreen Magnolia, a Chinese privet, a yew and a Holm oak.
Trees that are in a conservation area such as St John's Wood or are subject to council orders require planning permission to have work undertaken on them.
A neighbour said: 'A lot of trees here are protected because the area is in a specially protected conservation area where development is carefully controlled.
‘It has been difficult to get planning consent to even prune trees in the past in this area.'
Paul bought the three-storey home in 1965 for £40,000. He moved in the following year after installing a large gate and intercom.
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