Bishops Wood, Bromley Green Road, Ruckinge
Approved on 18 December 2025
Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Forestry commission felling license
- Received
- 2 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Ashford Borough Council
- Ward
- Weald South
- ReceivedReceived2 Dec
- ValidatedValidated2 Dec
- Consult.Consultation18 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided18 Dec
Decided in 16 days
About this application
This is a planning application at Bishops Wood, Bromley Green Road, Ruckinge. Ashford has handled 6,173 applications of this type. This one was decided in 16 days, 6 weeks quicker than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Weald South.
Application details
- Application type
- Forestry Commission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shadoxhurst
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 18 December 2025
- Application expires
- 30 December 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
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.
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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.
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