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St John The Baptist Church, Tonbridge Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, ME18 5PA

25/00169/TNCATree Notification Conservation AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 9 April 2025

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

Proposal

This maintenance work to allow better pedestrian access around the graveyard and to allow a gap between those branches of T1 that currently sweep the church building. T1 yew. To be crown raised to approx 3m and remove approx. 2m from the north facing branches to create a gap between them and the church. T2 yew. To be crown raised to approx 2.5m, to allow pedestrian access around base, and overall crown reduction from 6m to 3.5m. T3 beech. Crown raise to 4m. T4 yew. To have crown reduction from 3.5m to 2.5m with crown raised to 1.5m.

Received
3 February 2025
Ward
East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury
  1. Received3 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 57 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at St John The Baptist Church, Tonbridge Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, ME18 5PA. Tonbridge has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days. The site is in the Wateringbury conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury. We hold 199 applications in total for the ME18 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
ME18 5PA
Application type
Tree Notification Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wateringbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2025
Target decision date
8 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13739601
Documents
7
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.

  • Conservation area: Wateringbury
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    3 Feb

    This maintenance work to allow better pedestrian access around the graveyard and to allow a gap between those…

    ApprovedTree Notification Conservation AreaFiled alongside25/00169/PA
  2. 2025
    3 Feb

    This maintenance work to allow better pedestrian access around the graveyard and to allow a gap between those…

    This applicationApprovedTrees25/00169/TNCA

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