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Three Horse Shoes Staple Street Hernhill Kent ME13 9UA

25/502988/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 19 August 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Conservation area notification to cut back and clear one Walnut tree from outbuilding by at least 2 meters on the south facing side leaving the remaining crown spread, north to south at 10m

Received
18 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Boughton And Courtenay
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.8 Aug
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Three Horse Shoes Staple Street Hernhill Kent ME13 9UA. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the Staplestreet conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 9UA
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hernhill

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2025
Last date for comments
8 August 2025
Target decision date
29 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
C/O Thomas Bevan Detling Lime Works Hermitage Lane Maidstone ME14 3HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14180320
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Staplestreet
  • Listed building: Grade II: Three Horse ShoesOn this site · +2 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    5 Aug

    Conservation area notification to crown reduce Walnut tree (T1) by 2 metres in both height and lateral spread…

    ApprovedTrees in Conservation Area26/503009/TCA
  2. 2015
    9 Sep

    Conservation area notification to 1no Walnut tree - Crown reduction/thinning of 30%.

    ApprovedTrees in Conservation Area15/507268/TCA
  3. 2011
    2 Aug

    Raise crown on Walnut tree by 2m and cut back branches from neighbours

    ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreaTC/11/0068
  4. 2007
    25 Sep

    Listed Building Consent for smoking shelter within garden, adjacent to outbuilding.

    RefusedListed building consentSW/07/1140
  5. 2007
    25 Sep

    Smoking shelter within garden adjacent to outbuilding.

    RefusedFullSW/07/1139
  6. 2007
    4 Jun

    Erection of an external shelter and enclosing fence

    RefusedFullSW/07/0500

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