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Tonbridge School, High Street, Tonbridge, TN9 1JP

25/00346/TNCATree Notification Conservation AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 8 April 2025

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

Proposal

At main school site adjacent to High Street: 1 x Thuja plicata (applicant ref: T1 circled red on sketch plan) poor specimen leaning against wall - fell to ground and re-plant with new prunus and shrubs. 2 x Sycamore (ref: G2 circled red) In decline - fell to ground. 1 x Prunus laurocerasus (ref: T3 circled red) Reduce in height to 2m and clip as topiary. At boundary Hillside Line 48 Dry Hill Park Road and 46 Dry Hill Park Road: 20 x Beech and Sycamore (ref: G4 circled red in a line adjacent to access) - Reduce in height by up to 5m down to a new 6ft hedge from top of road to the bottom.

Received
27 February 2025
Ward
Judd
  1. Received27 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Apr
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 40 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at Tonbridge School, High Street, Tonbridge, TN9 1JP. Tonbridge has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 3 weeks quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Tonbridge conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Judd. We hold 641 applications in total for the TN9 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
TN9 1JP
Application type
Tree Notification Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Tonbridge

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2025
Target decision date
24 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13798883
Documents
2
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: Tonbridge
  • 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.

Source: Tonbridge

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