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5 Lower Green Road Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4DZ

24/03060/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 13 January 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Trees in a Conservation Area Notification: ASH (T1) - Fell - poor condition and evidence of ash dieback; BEECH (T2) - Reduce canopy by 4-5m; YEW ( T3) - Fell - dominating adjacent Japanese Maple and impinging growth; DOVE TREE (T4) - Remove deadwood; THUJA (T5) - Reduce overall height by 3m as three stems at risk of failure; CRAB APPLE (T6) - fell - suffering Apple Scab & significantly defoliated; ORNAMENTAL CHERRY (T7) - reduce height by 3-4m; MAGNOLIA (T8) - prune; ORNAMENTAL CHERRY (T9) - Remove deadwood; SWEET GUM (T10) - Remove deadwood & damaged stem, reduce undamaged stem by 4m; TULIP TREE (T11) - Remove extensive deadwood; WILLOW (T12) - Fell, sparse foliage and weak forks at 1m, basal decay and unstable; WHITEBEAM ( T13) - Remove deadwood; LABURNUM ( T14) - Remove dead stem; SPRUCE (T15) - Fell; FIELD MAPLE (T16) - Reduce to 3-4m tall; FIELD MAPLE (T17) - Reduce to 3-4m tall; CYPRESS (T18) - Reduce height by 3m; CYPRESS (T19) - Reduce height by 4m.

Received
3 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pembury And Capel
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Jan

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 Lower Green Road Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4DZ. Tunbridge Wells has handled 811 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Pembury And Capel. We hold 1,580 applications in total for the TN2 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN2 4DZ
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pembury Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13610093
Documents
11
Constraints
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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.

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