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Newlands, Marley Road, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME171AU

TA/0122/07Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 17 December 2007

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

An application for consent to cut back trees to clear line of driveway by 1.5m on an annual basis, to fell approximately 20 elder trees and to reduce two branches by 50% and remove one lower branch of one Ash Tree; all trees being subject to Tree Preservation Order no. 8 of 2003.

Received
4 September 2007
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harrietsham And Lenham
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 104 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Newlands, Marley Road, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME171AU. Mid Kent has handled 831 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 7 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 1AU
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harrietsham

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2007
Target decision date
29 October 2007
Application expires
30 October 2007
Permission expires
16 December 2009

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 42/2002Part of the site · +4 more
  • 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

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Mid Kent

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