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The Old Coach House, 38 High Street, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8AH

NOT/2025/0135Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 3 March 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1-Horse Chestnut - Reduce and thin crown by up to 3 meters from 8 metres to 5 metres. This tree has multiple stems and has been pollarded historically. We may need to remove some branches back to this point but need to try and keep a good shape and screen. Until we start work and climb the tree to inspect the old cuts we won’t know the extent of the reduction needed

Received
22 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Biddenden
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated27 Jan
  3. Consult.3 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Old Coach House, 38 High Street, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8AH. Ashford has handled 816 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Biddenden. We hold 353 applications in total for the TN27 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
TN27 8AH
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Biddenden

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 January 2025
Consultation expiry
3 March 2025
Consultation end
3 March 2025
Application expires
10 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13715743
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Biddenden
  • Listed building: Grade II: West HouseOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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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