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Booth Playing Field Church Road Harrietsham Kent ME17 1AP

23/502606/TPOATree Preservation Order ApplicationApproved

Approved on 7 September 2023

Council decision: TPOA Split Lesser/ ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Tre Preservation Order application: Group 1 Comprising 2 Corsican Pines - Remove fractured hanging limb at 8m, Remove major dead wood over phone line at 10m. T5 Beech - Prune back from ground level to 10m, removing 1m from crown radius. T6 - Sycamore, Prune back from ground level to 10m, removing 1m from crown radius. T17 - Lime, Crown lift to first crown break by up to 3.5m from above ground level. Remove major dead wood from crown above 70mm in diameter. Crown thin to allow more light and reduce sail effect removing branches less than 40mm in diameter (ensuring that the current structure and shape of the tree is not affected).

Received
6 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harrietsham And Lenham
  1. Received6 Jun
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.28 Jun
  4. Target1 Aug
  5. Decided7 Sep

Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Booth Playing Field Church Road Harrietsham Kent ME17 1AP. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,310 applications in total for the ME17 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
ME17 1AP
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harrietsham

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2023
Last date for comments
28 June 2023
Target decision date
1 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Niall Connett 940/01 Popjak Road Kent Science Park Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12205761
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 2/1997Next to the site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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: Mid Kent

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