Waldens Cottage North Lane Boughton Under Blean Kent ME13 9NJ
Approved on 27 February 2026
Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conservation Area Notification: Poplar - height of approximately 80 feet. Pollard the tree to a height of approximately 35 feet. This will remove weight from high in the tree thereby reducing the likelihood of the tree being blown over.
- Received
- 23 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Ward
- Boughton And Courtenay
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Jan
- Consult.Consultation17 Feb
- TargetTarget Date6 Mar
- DecidedDecided27 Feb
Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Waldens Cottage North Lane Boughton Under Blean Kent ME13 9NJ. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the South Street conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 9NJ
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Boughton Under Blean
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 January 2026
- Last date for comments
- 17 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 6 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Stephen Boshier Waldens Cottage North Lane Boughton-Under-Blean Kent ME13 9NJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14646643
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Boughton - South StreetPart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage 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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Source: Mid Kent
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