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397A Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HX

TPA/26/0045TPO Prune and/or Fell TreesApproved

Approved on 16 March 2026

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

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

Proposal

T1 - Oak (Quercus robur) - Crown reduction of up to 2.5 metres from the upper and lateral crown to reduce the overall size of the tree and removal of lower limb overhanging garden T2 - Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) - Selective removal of overhanging and laterally extended branches leaning over the public footpath to improve clearance T3 - Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) - Selective removal of overhanging branches extending over the public footpath

Received
13 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rainham South East
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Apr
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 397A Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HX. Medway has handled 276 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 84 applications across Rainham South East. 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 0HX
Application type
TPO Prune and/or Fell Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2026
Target decision date
3 April 2026
Permission expires
16 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Citadel Grounds Maintenance
Agent address
Dunstans Cottage Undertrees Farm Stodmarsh CT3 4BE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14619654
Comments
0
Documents
0
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

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.

Source: Medway

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