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Box Cottage, The Street, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3AD

OTH/2022/2120ABC Works to trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 23 June 2023

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prunus tree - Rear of Box Cottage, The Street, Bethersden. 1. Lift crown to 3m above ground level. 2. Lift crown away from western wall to leave a 1m separation gap. 3. Prune back eastern crown from adjacent barn to leave a 1m separation gap. 4. Reduce the tree’s height by no more than 2m, to leave a tree height of no less than 11m. 5. Thin the remainder of the crown by no more than 25%. 6. Remove deadwood. 7. Target prune to tidy old pruning stubs.

Received
29 July 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weald Central
  1. Received29 Jul
  2. Validated29 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jun

Decided in 329 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Box Cottage, The Street, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3AD. Ashford has handled 816 applications of this type. This one was decided in 329 days, 39 weeks longer than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Weald Central. 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 3AD
Application type
ABC Works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bethersden

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 July 2022
Target decision date
29 July 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11439641
Documents
2

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: Bethersden
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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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