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Shipmans Stone Street Cranbrook Kent TN17 3HG

25/02845/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 2 January 2026

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Trees in a conservation area notification: Elm (T1) - height reduction of 20% (1.5-2m) with a proportional width reduction; halo around the street lamp.

Received
25 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cranbrook, Sissinghurst And Frittenden
Agent
The Living Forest Ltd
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Shipmans Stone Street Cranbrook Kent TN17 3HG. Tunbridge Wells has handled 811 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 84 applications across Cranbrook, Sissinghurst And Frittenden. 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 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN17 3HG
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cranbrook & Sissinghurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Living Forest Ltd
Agent address
1 Turnden Cottages Hartley Road Cranbrook Kent, TN17 3QR

Publicity

Site notice start
27 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14517625
Documents
6
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 2, the TanyardOn or next to this site · +1 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.

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: Tunbridge Wells

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