St Georges Church The Green Benenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 4DL
Approved on 3 June 2025
Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Trees in a Conservation Area Notification: COMMON HOLLY (T12) - Raise low canopy to 3m, remove major dead wood; 5 no. COMMON OAK (T22, T14, T42, T43) - To fell; PRUNUS (T31) - To Fell; COMMON HORNBEAM (T33) - To fell; COMMON OAK (T62) - To prune by 3m; COMMON YEW (T6) - Raise low canopy to 2m, remove stubs and minor dead wood; COMMON YEW (T7) - To remove stubs and minor dead wood; COMMON YEW (T8) - To remove minor dead wood; COMMON OAK (T18) - Ivy; COMMON OAK (T19) - Raise low canopy to 2.5m and remove minor dead wood; 2 no. COMMON OAK (T20, T23) - To remove minor dead wood.
- Received
- 25 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden
- ReceivedReceived25 Apr
- ValidatedValidated25 Apr
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided3 Jun
Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at St Georges Church The Green Benenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 4DL. Tunbridge Wells has handled 811 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 83 applications across Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden. We hold 1,133 applications in total for the TN17 postcode area.
99% of trees applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- TN17 4DL
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Benenden Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Columbanus Standen Street Iden Green Cranbrook Kent, TN17 4HR
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 41
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Listed building: Grade II: Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of South Chapel at St George'S ChurchOn this site · +7 more
- National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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 (19)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Tunbridge Wells
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