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Canon House School Lane Wingham CT3 1BD

25/01302Works to Trees with a TPOApproved

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: Grant ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown lift to 5 metres above highway and crown lift remaining crown to balance, prune back selected branches to provide 1.5 metres clearance from communication cables, and crown reduce the remaining crown by a maximum of 3.5 metres of one Beech (T1) and reduce height by approximately 1.5 metres to a final height of around 2.5 metres and shape both faces with hedge cutters to leave an even, formal finish of a group of Yews (G1), all the subject of Tree Preservation Order No 19 of 2023.

Received
6 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Little Stour And Ashstone
  1. Received6 Dec
  2. Validated16 Dec
  3. Consult.20 Jan
  4. Target10 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Canon House School Lane Wingham CT3 1BD. Dover has handled 460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Dover's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Little Stour And Ashstone. We hold 2,037 applications in total for the CT3 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at Dover District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT3 1BD
Application type
Works to Trees with a TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
WINGHAM

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 December 2025
Last date for comments
20 January 2026
Target decision date
10 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
South East Tree Works
Agent address
1 Cross Street Canterbury CT2 8AT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Wingham
  • Listed building: Grade II: Bleak 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: Dover

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