4 Staple Street Hernhill Kent ME13 9UD
Approved on 6 September 2017
Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Tree in a Conservation Area: 1no. Birch tree to be reduced in height by 15-20% (to 7.5m x 4.5m) and 1no. purple beech to be re-pollarded to previous pruning points (5.5m).
- Received
- 1 August 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Ward
- Boughton And Courtenay
- ReceivedReceived1 Aug
- ValidatedValidated1 Aug
- Consult.Consultation8 Sep
- TargetTarget Date12 Sep
- DecidedDecided6 Sep
Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 4 Staple Street Hernhill Kent ME13 9UD. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the Staplestreet conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 87 applications across Boughton And Courtenay. We hold 1,018 applications in total for the ME13 postcode area.
92% of trees applications at Maidstone Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ME13 9UD
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hernhill
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 August 2017
- Last date for comments
- 8 September 2017
- Target decision date
- 12 September 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 116 Milton Street Maidstone Kent ME16 8LL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 3
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Staplestreet
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage 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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2 other applications at this property, newest first.
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