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The Old Vicarage Mereworth Road West Peckham Maidstone Kent ME18 5JH

26/01583/TNCAApproved

Approved on 7 October 2026

Council decision: No Objection

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1x Mature Yew tree (applicant ref T1) - reduce the lower 1/3 towards the house by approx 20%/1.5m. 1x Yew tree (applicant ref T2) - heavily reduce to 12ft to match Yew ball opposite. 1x Mixed hedge (applicant ref H1) - reduce height of hedge up to the conifer, height to be approx 8ft. 1x row of lapsed Yew hedge (applicant ref H2) - reduce row of Yew trees back into a hedge, height to be approx 10ft

Received
25 August 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 3 November 2026
Ward
East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury
  1. Received25 Aug
  2. Validated26 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 42 days

About this application

This is a planning application at The Old Vicarage Mereworth Road West Peckham Maidstone Kent ME18 5JH. Tonbridge has handled 6,225 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 3 weeks quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the West Peckham 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.

Application details

Postcode
ME18 5JH
Parish
West Peckham

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Edward Jones

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: West Peckham
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old VicarageOn this site
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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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