Valley Park Community School Huntsman Lane Maidstone Kent ME14 5DT
Approved on 8 January 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Tree Preservation Order application: 2011 Common Alder - Dismantle fell to the coppice stool. Chip brushwood to waste and cut up wood and stack in neat piles on the woodland bank.
- Received
- 8 November 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Ward
- Grove Green And Vinters Park
- ReceivedReceived8 Nov
- ValidatedValidated8 Nov
- Consult.Consultation4 Dec
- TargetTarget Date3 Jan
- DecidedDecided8 Jan
Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Valley Park Community School Huntsman Lane Maidstone Kent ME14 5DT. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Grove Green And Vinters Park. We hold 1,563 applications in total for the ME14 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
- ME14 5DT
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Boxley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 November 2024
- Last date for comments
- 4 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 3 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Miss Tamara Constable 1 Turnden Cottages Hartley Road Cranbrook Kent TN17 3QR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13550067
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20262 Jun
TPO application to Fell one (T1) sycamore tree due to growing against raised sewage pipe in woodland and to…
PendingTree Preservation Order Application26/502110/TPOA - 202431 Oct
Section 73 Application for Minor Material Amendment to approved plans condition 3 (to allow for a slightly…
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)24/504530/FULL - 20222 Aug
TPO application to reduce back North-western limb of one Black Walnut growing towards building by…
ApprovedTree Preservation Order Application22/503778/TPOA
Source: Mid Kent
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