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4 Clifton Road Whitstable Kent CT5 1DQ

CA/25/01299Conservation Area NoticeApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 22 August 2025

Council decision: NO OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T2) crown reduce Bay tree (20%) by house into a sphere, lifting lower crown to 1.5 metres in rear garden leaving a 2.5 metre crown, T3) crown reduce 2nd Bay (25%) tree into a sphere, lifting lower crown by 1 metre in rear gardens leaving a 2.5 metre crown.

Received
21 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gorrell
Agent
A. Bird Tree Surgery Ltd
  1. Received21 Jul
  2. Validated21 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 4 Clifton Road Whitstable Kent CT5 1DQ. Canterbury has handled 1,360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 weeks quicker than Canterbury's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitstable Town conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 177 applications across Gorrell. We hold 846 applications in total for the CT5 postcode area.

100% of heritage applications at Canterbury City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT5 1DQ
Application type
Conservation Area Notice
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 July 2025
Target decision date
1 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
A. Bird Tree Surgery Ltd
Agent address
85 Middle wall Whitstable CT5 1BW

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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: Whitstable Town
  • Listed building: Whitstable TownOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Dwelling houses in Whitstable Town Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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: Canterbury

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