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Wealden House, Castle Walk, Wadhurst, TN5 6DB

TM/2025/0331/TPOTree with Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 26 January 2026

Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 OAK - CANOPY REDUCTION OF 1.5-2.5M TO STRONG SECONDARY GROWTH POINTS - FURTHER THIN THE CROWN BY 5-10% WHERE NECESSARY. REMOVE EPICORMIC GROWTH AND DEADWOOD. SPECIMEN HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITH SEVERAL FRUITING BODIES OF GANODERMA BRACKETS AT THE BASE OF THE TREE ALONG WITH SPARASSIS SPATHULATA FRUITING BODY. REDUCTION AIMS TO REDUCE SAIL/ WIND LOAD ON PARTIALLY DECAYED STEM.

Received
3 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Frant & Wadhurst
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Jan
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at WEALDEN HOUSE, CASTLE WALK, WADHURST, TN5 6DB. Wealden has handled 1,601 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Frant & Wadhurst. We hold 1,451 applications in total for the TN5 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at Wealden District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN5 6DB
Application type
Tree with Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wadhurst

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2025
Target decision date
29 January 2026
Committee meeting
21 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr William Gordon 5 The Grange Tunbridge Wells TN3 0HR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

UPRN
100060141596
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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