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The Vicarage, Old Way, Appledore, TN26 2DB

NOT/2023/1404Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 25 September 2023

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T01 Silver birch – crown lift to 5.2m above the highway and remove all deadwood. T02 Silver birch - crown lift to 5.2m above the highway and remove major deadwood (25mm and greater) (Note – overhead coated electric in crown). T04 Walnut - crown lift to 3m above ground level and remove major deadwood (25mm and greater). T05 Silver birch – prune back to give 1-2m clearance from building by removing secondary growth. Hawthorn (Actually Crab apple) – Crown lift to 3m above ground level. T11 Dead cherry plum – fell to ground level. T12 Bay tree – fell to ground level and grind out stump (subject to no underground services being present). H1 – Overgrown beech hedge - reduce height of approximately 1.8m, back to previously maintained height.

Received
27 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Isle of Oxney
  1. Received27 Jul
  2. Validated10 Aug
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Sep

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Vicarage, Old Way, Appledore, TN26 2DB. Ashford has handled 816 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Isle of Oxney. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the TN26 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Ashford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN26 2DB
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 August 2023
Consultation expiry
25 September 2023
Consultation start
10 August 2023
Consultation end
25 September 2023
Application expires
21 September 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12345125
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Ashford

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