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5 Church Cottages School Lane Newington Kent CT18 8AX

Y17/1166/SHWorks to Trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 30 October 2017

Council decision: No objectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Rolling consent to undertake an overall crown reduction of 2.5 metres, a 5 metre crown lift and a 20% crown thin of a Sycamore situated within a conservation area, followed by the pruning back to previous reduction points once every two years for a maximum period of ten years

Submitted
18 September 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received18 Sep
  2. Validated18 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Oct
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 Church Cottages School Lane Newington Kent CT18 8AX. 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 Newington conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,627 applications in total for the CT18 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
CT18 8AX
Application type
Works to Trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newington

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 September 2017
Target decision date
20 October 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Homestead The Green Saltwood Kent CT21 4PS

Planning decision

Statutory period
32 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.

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 (5)

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.

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Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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