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St Saviours School Elm Grove Westgate On Sea Kent CT8 8LB

TPO/TH/25/0741Tree Works TPOApproved

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

M/TPO/3(1952) - T019- Sycamore -Fell, T021- Poplar - Fell, T023- Poplar: Reduce crown by 2m, 4m over road and shape accordingly to reduce stress on structural defect. T027- Poplar - Fell, T028- Poplar - Fell

Received
25 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westgate-on-Sea
  1. Received25 Jun
  2. Validated25 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target20 Aug
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 42 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Saviours School Elm Grove Westgate On Sea Kent CT8 8LB. Thanet has handled 466 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 4 weeks quicker than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Westgate-on-Sea. We hold 617 applications in total for the CT8 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Thanet District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT8 8LB
Application type
Tree Works TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Westgate Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 June 2025
Consultation expiry
24 July 2025
Consultation start
3 July 2025
Consultation end
24 July 2025
Last date for comments
1 August 2025
Target decision date
20 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arborfeld
Agent address
82 St James Park Road Margate CT9 5HZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Birchington & Rural ED
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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: Thanet

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