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62-68 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Folkestone, CT20 3AR

25/0345/FH/TCAWorks to Trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 7 April 2025

Council decision: No Objections

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

Proposal

Works to trees in a Conservation area comprising of T1 Holly - reduce to approx 8 metres in height, G1 - remove all tree within/intertwined within fence, T2 - Sycamore - reduce height by approx 2 metres / lateral by approx 1 metres, G2 - Cluster of 3x Sycamore - reduce height by approx 2 metres /prune laterals back to boundary, T3 - Sycamore - reduce height by approx 2m /reduce lateral by approx 1m, T4 - sycamore - Fell to approx ground level

Received
26 February 2025
Ward
Sandgate & West Folkestone
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.4 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 62-68 SANDGATE HIGH STREET, SANDGATE, FOLKESTONE, CT20 3AR. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 911 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Sandgate High Street conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Sandgate & West Folkestone. 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 3AR
Application type
Works to Trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sandgate

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2025
Consultation expiry
4 April 2025
Consultation end
4 April 2025
Application expires
9 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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: Sandgate High Street

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

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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