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Sainsbury's Petrol Station High Street Staplehurst Kent TN12 0BN

24/503370/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 3 October 2024

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conservation area notification: Horse chestnut - Cut back lowest branch by up to 2m. Reduce secondary branches in the upper crown by 1.5m. Height will stay the same. The Lateral spread on the northern side will be 5m.

Received
16 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Staplehurst
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated16 Aug
  3. Consult.17 Aug
  4. Target27 Sep
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sainsbury's Petrol Station High Street Staplehurst Kent TN12 0BN. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,125 applications in total for the TN12 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
TN12 0BN
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Staplehurst

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 August 2024
Last date for comments
17 August 2024
Target decision date
27 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Tas Clay Thomas Wood Yard Bank Lane Hildenborough TN11 8NR

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13333540
Documents
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: Mid Kent

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