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50, Little Orchard, Old Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, ME18 5PL

25/01350/PATree Notification Conservation AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 18 September 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1 x Crab Apple, 2 x Flowering Cherry, 3 x Cypress leylandii, 1 x Sycamore, 3 x Laurel and 1 x Prunus - Remove. (1 x Dawn Redwood - Remove dead branches only.)

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated13 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Sep
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 36 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 50, Little Orchard, Old Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, ME18 5PL. Tonbridge has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 4 weeks quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Wateringbury conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 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 5PL
Application type
Tree Notification Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wateringbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 August 2025
Target decision date
24 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

UPRN
100061158236
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Source: Tonbridge

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