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238 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HH

TPA/25/1239TPO Prune and/or Fell TreesRefused

Refused on 8 August 2025

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1: Cedar - Prune lower hanging branches from over 7m down to a maximum of 3m measured above ground level T2: Maple & Ash - Reduce secondary trunk from over 8m to under 5m maintaining tree height 15-20 m T3: Ash - remove elongated low - hanging lateral branch (currently over 10m long 1.5 above pathway) T4: Pine - Reduce overall tree height by 25-30% originally around 25-30m to address significant lean (approx 50-60 degrees) and lower risk of structural failure

Received
18 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rainham South West
  1. Received18 Jun
  2. Validated1 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Aug
  5. Decided8 Aug

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 238 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HH. Medway has handled 276 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Rainham South West. We hold 806 applications in total for the ME8 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
ME8 0HH
Application type
TPO Prune and/or Fell Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 July 2025
Target decision date
26 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14109902
Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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.

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