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Hunters Moon Broomfield Road Kingswood Kent ME17 3NY

25/504337/TPOATree Preservation Order ApplicationApproved

Approved on 2 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

TPO application to Remove the stand of 4x sweet chestnuts to ground level due to the stems leaning outward and posing a risk to property or persons due to decay and delamination to the main stems caused by Honey fungus. fruiting bodies visible as well as rhizomorphs under delaminated bark.

Received
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Leeds And Langley
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.18 Nov
  4. Target16 Dec
  5. Decided2 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hunters Moon Broomfield Road Kingswood Kent ME17 3NY. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Leeds And Langley. 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 3NY
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Broomfield And Kingswood

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Last date for comments
18 November 2025
Target decision date
16 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14426261
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 40/2003Protected tree on or next to this site
  • 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

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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