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Homepine House, Sandgate Road, Folkestone, CT20 2XB

23/1886/FH/TCAWorks to Trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 5 January 2024

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees in a Conservation area comprising of T852 Horse Chestnut overall crown reduction by 1.5m, T853 Horse Chestnut overall crown reduction by 1.5m, T854 Ash fell to near ground level, T855 Cherry overall crown reduction by 2m, T857 Silver Birch crown lift to 3m from ground level, T858 Sycamore remove epicormic growth to height of 3m from ground level, T863 Sycamore overall crown reduction by 2.5 m and remove deadwood greater than 25mm in diameter

Received
24 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received24 Nov
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target5 Jan
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Homepine House, Sandgate Road, Folkestone, CT20 2XB. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 911 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Folkestone conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Folkestone Central. We hold 383 applications in total for the CT20 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
CT20 2XB
Application type
Works to Trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2023
Consultation expiry
5 January 2024
Consultation end
5 January 2024
Target decision date
5 January 2024
Application expires
16 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Treeline Services Ltd Chadhurst Farm Coldharbour Lane Dorking RH4 3JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Folkestone

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 (6)

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

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© 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.

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