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The Manor Office, 43 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2RB

25/1660/FHWorks to Trees covered by a TPOApproved

Approved on 22 October 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions3 conditions

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

Proposal

Works to trees subject of Tree Preservation Order No. 1 of 1972. T2 Lime tree, remove shoots at base. T4 Sycamore, prune shoots arising around 2m height. T5 Horse Chestnut, sever ivy at ground level. Remove all regrowth flush with trunk to height 4m. T7 English Oak, remove limb separated from the crown and extending northeastward. T8 Sycamore, fell at height 2 metres, leaving low growth.

Received
2 September 2025
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received2 Sep
  2. Validated2 Sep
  3. Consult.3 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Manor Office, 43 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2RB. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 911 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. 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 2RB
Application type
Works to Trees covered by a TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 September 2025
Consultation expiry
3 October 2025
Consultation end
3 October 2025
Application expires
28 October 2025

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.

  • 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

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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