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Old Post Office Forstal Road Womenswold Kent CT4 6SU

CA/25/02189Conservation Area NoticeApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 8 January 2026

Council decision: NO OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Cut mixed coppice which consists of mainly sweet chestnut with sycamore and some hazel, ash, hornbeam in accordance with good woodland management standards. There are also a few misshapen windblown trees which require cutting.

Received
26 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Nailbourne
  1. Received26 Nov
  2. Validated26 Nov
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target7 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Old Post Office Forstal Road Womenswold Kent CT4 6SU. Canterbury has handled 1,360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Canterbury's typical decision time. The site is in the Denne Hill Park, Womenswold conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Nailbourne. We hold 1,907 applications in total for the CT4 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
CT4 6SU
Application type
Conservation Area Notice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Womenswold

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 November 2025
Last date for comments
2 January 2026
Target decision date
7 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

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: Denne Hill Park ( Womenswold )
  • Listed building: Denne Hill Park ( Womenswold )On or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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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