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Old Post Office Cottage Speldhurst Hill Speldhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0NL

26/02256/TCAApproved

Approved on 14 October 2026

Council decision: No Objections

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

CA trees: Yew (T1) crown lift by 2m, cut back branches by 1-2m

Received
9 October 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 18 October 2026
Ward
Rusthall And Speldhurst
  1. Received9 Oct
  2. Validated9 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided14 Oct

Decided in 5 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Old Post Office Cottage Speldhurst Hill Speldhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0NL. Tunbridge Wells has handled 5,829 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 7 weeks quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Rusthall And Speldhurst. We hold 1,126 applications in total for the TN3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
TN3 0NL
Parish
Speldhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 October 2026
Target decision date
20 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Ben Oates

Additional information

Documents
5

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 (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.

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