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St Martins Battery South Military Road Dover Kent

TC/24/00036Works to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 15 March 2024

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Fell one group of self seeded Hawthorn and Elder; cut back branches overhanging car park back to bottom of bank and up to a height of 2.5 metres; coppice Sycamore and Elder on lower bank; cut back to trunk lateral branches extending towards entrance of magazine of two Sycamores; fell Buddleia and small self seeded saplings from top of building and from fence line to front of battery, all situated within a conservation area.

Received
14 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Town And Castle
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Apr
  5. Decided15 Mar

Decided in 1 day (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Martins Battery South Military Road Dover Kent. Dover has handled 460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 1 day, 8 weeks quicker than Dover's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Town And Castle.

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

Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
DOVER

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2024
Target decision date
25 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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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.

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