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Birchwood, Spitalfield Lane, New Romney, TN28 8HQ

21/1938/FHWorks to Trees covered by a TPOApproved

Approved on 19 November 2021

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Crown reduction of T1, T2, T3 & T4 all Silver Birch by 2 metres in height and 1.5 metres laterally all subject of Tree Preservation Order No 20 of 2006

Received
20 September 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
New Romney
  1. Received20 Sep
  2. Validated27 Sep
  3. Consult.21 Oct
  4. Target21 Oct
  5. Decided19 Nov

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Birchwood, Spitalfield Lane, New Romney, TN28 8HQ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 911 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across New Romney. We hold 1,202 applications in total for the TN28 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at Folkestone and Hythe District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN28 8HQ
Application type
Works to Trees covered by a TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
New Romney Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 September 2021
Consultation expiry
21 October 2021
Consultation end
21 October 2021
Target decision date
21 October 2021
Application expires
22 November 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Trees r us 103 Meehan Road, Greatstone , New Romney , TN28 8NZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

No recorded designations at this site.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (7)

conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens and SSSIs.

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.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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