5 Oast Cottages Plumpudding Lane Dargate Kent ME13 9EY Data via plota.co.uk

26/501372/TCA - Trees in Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Conservation Area Notification: T3 Willow - Remove 1 Contorted limb back to trunk. G1 Mixed trees forming a hedge - crown lift lateral branches to a height of 5.2m. T4 & T5 Holm Oak and Willow - Cut back trees by 2m in lateral spread. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
9 Apr 2026
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Approved
18 May 2026

Approved on 18 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF No Objection TCA Decision · 18 May 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Tree Officer Consultee Comment · 8 May 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Details · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 3

Hernhill - Dargate 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 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
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 9EY
Received
9 Apr 2026
Validated
9 Apr 2026
Ward
Boughton And Courtenay
Parish
Hernhill
Case officer
Show
Target decision
21 May 2026
Decision
No Objections
Decision date
18 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
A. Bird Tree Surgery Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 39 days from validation, 5 days slower than Swale's median of 34 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 100% of tree and landscaping works here are.

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-14812941
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

12 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

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2024 Approved
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2024 Approved
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2023 Approved
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2023 Withdrawn
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2018 Approved
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2018 Approved
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2016 Approved
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Swale
Planning Authority Score
2.3/10
Poor
#263 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
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