21/02206/TNCA

1. 9 Aug 2021

   Received by Tonbridge and Malling

2. 4 Oct 2021

   Decision issued: No Objection

3. 29 Jul 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

This application is at appeal, which passes the decision from the council to the national planning inspectorate, or in Scotland usually to a local review body first. The appeal considers the scheme afresh against the same policies.

Anyone who commented on the original application is normally notified and can comment again within the appeal deadline. Appeal decisions take months rather than weeks, and the outcome replaces the council's decision.

Tree applications cover work to protected trees: those under a tree preservation order need consent for pruning or felling, and trees in a conservation area need six weeks written notice before work starts. The council assesses the amenity value of the tree and can refuse consent, approve it with conditions, or in conservation areas make a preservation order in response.

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• 21/00441/TNCA Granted

  Yotes Court Mereworth Road Mereworth Maidstone Kent ME18 5JQ

  Management of the chestnut tree row and one ash tree at the end of the property, partially overhanging a historic wall. Chestnut trees along a 70m stretch of historic brick wall, work proposed is to reduce the length of branches overhanging the wall and extending out of the crown line to the wall to a suitable growth point behind the wall, along the length of the wall where required. Removed dead part of crown of Chestnut. Remove Ash tree within Chestnut tree boundary, the Ash tree consists of one stem that splits into two larger branches (roughly at 6m from the ground) which are solely growing towards the wall (south)

  17 Feb 2021 158m away Trees
• 26/00773/FL Awaiting decision

  Yotes Court Farm Mereworth Road Mereworth Maidstone Kent ME18 5JQ

  Demolition of the existing barns and erection of 9x dwellings with associated parking and landscaping

  27 Apr 2026 204m away Full applications
• 20/02835/TNCA Granted

  Octagon House Mereworth Road Mereworth Maidstone Kent ME18 5JQ

  T1 Mature Willow - prune to reduce the crown overall by approx. 2.5m to the vicinity of the previous reduction points and T2 Eucalyptus - prune to reduce the crown overall by approx. 3m to vicinity of the previous reduction points

  10 Dec 2020 334m away Trees

• 26/01438/TNCA Decided

  Old Parsonage Court West Malling Kent

  1 x Oak (applicants ref. T1 - 70% dead and adjacent to garage) - Remove.

  23 Jul 2026 Trees
• 26/01427/TPOC Decided

  6 Staleys Acre Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8GT

  1 x twin-stemmed False Acacia with recently failed stem and basal decay - Remove. Standing in Group G1 of Tree Preservation Order

  29 Jul 2026 Trees
• 26/01426/TPOC Decided

  Bank Lane Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent

  Trees standing in Woodland W1 of Tree Preservation Order - Root pruning necessary to enable repair of leak (excavation along part of red line annotation on submitted plan in highway/highway Verge opposite Oakhurst Farm House, Bank Lane, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, Kent, TN11

  29 Jul 2026 Trees
• 26/01422/TNCA Awaiting decision

  Hillview Long Mill Lane Platt Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8LZ

  T1 (Applicants ref) - False Acacia - Reduce crown by 30%.- To allow more light on property and patio

  28 Jul 2026 Trees
• 26/01408/TPOC Awaiting decision

  27 Haydens Mews Tonbridge Kent TN9 1PZ

  Ash tree- Coppice (Lower boughs cutting back). Standing in Group G2 of Tree Preservation Order

  27 Jul 2026 Trees