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The Malling School Beech Road East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6DH

24/00040/TPOCTree Preservation Order ConsentApproved

Approved on 6 March 2024

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

Proposal

T1 (applicants ref.), mature Sycamore tree in the woodland area over hanging the house. The canopy is hitting the roof and causing excessive shading to the property below. We would like to reduce the Eastern canopy from 8.5 meters to 6.5 meters and Remove 2x lower laterals on the eastern side of the canopy one at 7 meters from ground level and one at 8 meters from ground level to the main stem. Group G11 of Tree Preservation Order.

Received
10 January 2024
Ward
East Malling West Malling And Offham
  1. Received10 Jan
  2. Validated10 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Malling School Beech Road East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6DH. Tonbridge has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 176 applications across East Malling West Malling And Offham. We hold 1,037 applications in total for the ME19 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ME19 6DH
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
East Malling And Larkfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 January 2024
Target decision date
6 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12722615
Documents
4
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.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Planning history at this site

8 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    25 Jun

    1 x Beech (applicants ref. T003) - Reduce co dominant stem by 6 metres. Standing in Group G4 of Tree…

    ApprovedApplication26/01205/TPOC
  2. 2024
    12 Aug

    2 x Beech (applicant ref G008 circled orange on map) -Raise canopies of both trees to 3m. 1 x Cherry…

    ApprovedTree Preservation Order Consent24/01291/TPOC
  3. 2022
    6 Dec

    1 x Cherry (applicants ref. T1) - Remove southern limb. Standing in Group G5 of Tree Preservation Order

    ApprovedTree Preservation Order Consent22/02687/TPOC
  4. 2022
    8 Feb

    1 x Robinia (applicants ref. T1) - Reduce heavily weighted southern and western scaffold limbs by 6M…

    ApprovedTree Preservation Order Consent22/00289/TPOC
  5. 2022
    28 Jan

    Consultation by Kent County Council: Proposed replacement of existing temporary pedestrian trackway with a…

    ApprovedCounty Regulation 322/00215/CR3
  6. 2014
    8 Jul

    Signs to both school entrances

    ApprovedAdvertisement consent14/02361/AT

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