54 Lamplighters Close Hempstead Gillingham Medway ME7 3NZ

TPA/25/2381TPO Prune and/or Fell TreesApproved

Approved on 3 February 2026

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)1 condition

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

Proposal

T1 Current height and width of approx. 8m, finished height and width of 6m. T2 Current height of approx. 17m, finished height of 16m, current width of approx 8m, finished width of 5.5m.

Received: 7 December 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Medway Council
Ward: Hempstead & Wigmore

ReceivedReceived7 Dec
ValidatedValidated8 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date2 Feb
DecidedDecided3 Feb

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 54 Lamplighters Close Hempstead Gillingham Medway ME7 3NZ. Medway has handled 276 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Hempstead & Wigmore. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the ME7 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: ME7 3NZ
Application type: TPO Prune and/or Fell Trees
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 December 2025
Target decision date: 2 February 2026
Permission expires: 3 February 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14547112
Comments: 0
Documents: 7

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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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.

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

Source: Medway

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