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91 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1LX

CAN/26/2125CA - Prune and/or Fell TreesApproved

Approved on 6 January 2026

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 - Lime Tree - Crown lift by 4m from ground level leaving a tree height of approximately 3m and to cut back and reduce diameter of the tree by trimming the branches from a radial spread of 5m to 3m so no longer hanging over into the public car park

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rochester West & Borstal
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated5 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Dec
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 91 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1LX. Medway has handled 276 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Historic Rochester conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Rochester West & Borstal. We hold 340 applications in total for the ME1 postcode area.

87% of trees applications at Medway Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ME1 1LX
Application type
CA - Prune and/or Fell Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 November 2025
Target decision date
17 December 2025
Permission expires
6 January 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14443134
Comments
0
Documents
2
Constraints
6

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: Historic Rochester
  • Listed building: Grade II: 81, High StreetOn or next to this site · +4 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    5 Mar

    T1 - Lime Tree - Reduction to a 6m monolith

    ApprovedCA - Prune and/or Fell TreesCAN/26/0449

Source: Medway

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