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Bankside, High Street, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6SY

26/1243/FH/TCAWorks to Trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 3 September 2026

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 Goat Willow pollard to 4 metres.

Received
3 August 2026
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Sep

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Bankside, High Street, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6SY. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 911 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Elham conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,908 applications in total for the CT4 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
CT4 6SY
Application type
Works to Trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Elham

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026
Consultation expiry
28 August 2026
Consultation end
28 August 2026
Application expires
18 September 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Tom Bevan
Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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: Elham

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    15 Nov

    Proposed Timber Cabin for incidental/ancilliary Use

    ApprovedHouseholder23/1830/FH

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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