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46, Woodbury Road, Walderslade, Chatham, ME5 9HS

25/00916/PATree Preservation Order ConsentApproved

Approved on 22 July 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1 x Cypress (applicants ref. T1) - Reduce by up to 1 third in height and not exceeding the previous reduction points. Reduce laterally on the eastern side (canopy overhanging the garden) by up to 1.5m to create a residual radial spread of approx. 2m, but ensuring that a green growing margin of at least 10cm is left at the end of any cut branches. Standing in Woodland W1 of Tree Preservation Order.

Received
27 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Walderslade
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Jul
  5. Decided22 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 46, WOODBURY ROAD, WALDERSLADE, CHATHAM, ME5 9HS. 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 are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Walderslade. We hold 479 applications in total for the ME5 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
ME5 9HS
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Aylesford

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2025
Target decision date
22 July 2025
Application expires
20 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14052199
UPRN
100061157610
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    27 May

    1 x Cypress (applicants ref. T1) - Reduce by up to 1 third in height and not exceeding the previous reduction…

    This applicationApprovedTrees25/00916/PA
  2. 2025
    27 May

    1 x Cypress (applicants ref. T1) - Reduce by up to 1 third in height and not exceeding the previous reduction…

    ApprovedTree Preservation Order ConsentFiled alongside25/00916/TPOC

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