Playing Fields Tonbridge School High Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1JP
Approved on 28 August 2026
Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
3 x Ash (applicant refs T1, T2 and T3 - T1 and T2 standing adjacent to boundary between Smythe House 45 and Welldon House 47/49 London Road and T3 standing adjacent to path that runs along the north side of the playing fields in locations marked on annotated aerial image) - Crown reductions to secondary fork unions approximately 4 metres from branch tips as specified.
- Received
- 6 July 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Judd
- ReceivedReceived6 Jul
- ValidatedValidated21 Jul
- Consult.Consultation14 Aug
- TargetTarget Date1 Sep
- DecidedDecided28 Aug
Decided in 38 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at Playing Fields Tonbridge School High Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1JP. Tonbridge has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 10 days quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Tonbridge conservation area. 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
- 21 July 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 14 August 2026
- Consultation end
- 14 August 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 22 July 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 August 2026
- Last date for comments
- 14 August 2026
- Target decision date
- 1 September 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- All For Trees
- Agent address
- 38 Hillcrest Tunbridge Wells TN4 0AL
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Edward Jones
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-15027681
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 58
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Tonbridge
- Green belt: Tonbridge and Malling
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202524 Nov
T1 Lime (Tilia X Europea) - Reduce to 10m - Several Ganoderma brackets observed on the stem - Visible…
ApprovedTree Notification Conservation Area25/01964/TNCA - 202430 Aug
1 x Ash (On the Welldon/Smythe House Boundary but in the Smythe House Garden. 45 London Road TN10 3AD), 1 x…
ApprovedTree Notification Conservation Area24/01406/TNCA
Source: Tonbridge
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