St Marys Abbey, 52, Swan Street, West Malling, ME19 6JX
Approved on 27 February 2025
Council decision: No Objection
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Proposal
T1 - Hazel - rear boundary - re coppice to finished height of 1m from ground level T2 - Magnolia - rear right hand boundary - reduce in height and radial spread by no more than 2m and remove ivy from ground level to finished height of 1.5m G1 - Pair of Bramley Apple - within orchard - reduce to previous reduction pints removing 2.5m of growth G2 - Laurel hedge adjoining swan Street - cut back to inside walls edge removing 1.5m of growth only
- Received
- 7 January 2025
- Ward
- East Malling West Malling And Offham
- ReceivedReceived7 Jan
- ValidatedValidated29 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date26 Mar
- DecidedDecided27 Feb
Decided in 29 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at St Marys Abbey, 52, Swan Street, West Malling, ME19 6JX. Tonbridge has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 12 days quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the West Malling conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 177 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 6JX
- Application type
- Tree Notification Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- West Malling
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 26 March 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13632938
- Documents
- 11
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: West Malling
- Listed building: Grade II*: Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, West…On this site · +21 more
- Scheduled monument: St Mary's Abbey: a Benedictine abbey north and east of Water LanePart of the site
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 (19)
flood storage areas, green belt, 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: Tonbridge
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