St Marys Church Provender Lane Norton Kent ME13 0SG Data via plota.co.uk

26/503379/TCA - Trees in Conservation Area Pending
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Conservation area notification to reduce one (T1) Yew trees height from 12 metres to 9 metres and spread from 7 metres to 4 metres, reduce one (T2) Holly trees height from 7 metres to 5 metres and spread from 6 metres to 5 metres and to reduce one (T3) Cherry trees height from 7 metres to 5 metres and spread from 7 metres to 5 metres. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
2 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 14 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 6 Oct 2026, from Swale's recent tree and landscaping works.

Documents 3

Other documents 3

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Details · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Photo of Tree Photographs · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Photo of Trees 2 Photographs · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

Grade I listed: Church of St Mary
List entry 1069252 · 1 m from the pin · 1 more listed building within 150 m (1 Grade II)
Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Lewson Street conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Public footpath 25 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 43 m away: Lowland meadows.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Swale
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Postcode
ME13 0SG
Received
2 Sept 2026
Validated
2 Sept 2026
Ward
Teynham And Lynsted
Parish
Norton, Buckland And Stone
Case officer
Show
Target decision
14 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Treeworld

Decision outlook

Day 13 of the 56-day target. Swale usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 34.

Day 1343 days to the 56-day target
100%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
57decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Swale in the last twelve months, from validation. Swale decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15173391
Statutory expiry
14 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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Swale
Planning Authority Score
2.3/10
Poor
#263 of 296 councils
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Other decisions

Swale is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #275 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 70% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
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Swale decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #143 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #120 of 296
37%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #275 of 296
70%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #286 of 296
72%
Minor dwellings approved
81 decided (1-9 homes)
84%
Major dwellings approved
25 decided (10+ homes)
95%
Change of use approved
22 decided
658
Total decisions
71 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings