WHYCHWAYS Old Road, Sarre, Birchington, Kent, CT7 0LB Data via plota.co.uk
TCA/TH/26/0737 - Trees in a conservation area application
Approved
Proposal
1No Common Ash (T1) - Crown lift over the highway to provide 5.2 metres clearance above the carriageway and for 0.45 metres beyond the carriageway edge/kerb line. Crown lift to provide a minimum of 2.4 metres clearance above the remaining footway. 1No Leyland Cypress (T2) - Crown lift over the highway to provide 5.2 metres clearance above the carriageway and for 0.45 metres beyond the carriageway edge/kerb line. Crown lift to provide a minimum of 2.4 metres clearance above the remaining footway. 1No Weeping Willow (T3) - Pollard the tree back to the previous pollard points or to an agreed height of approximately 6 metres above ground level, subject to suitable growth points and arboricultural judgement. Data via plota.co.uk
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Received
14 Jul 2026
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Validated
15 Jul 2026
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Consultation
15 Jul 2026
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Approved
13 Sept 2026
Approved on 13 Sept 2026 · Last checked 30 Sept 2026
Documents 2
Plans & drawings 1
Application forms 1
Site constraints 8
Grade II listed: Wychways
List entry 1266487 · The pin is inside its outline · 13 more listed buildings within 150 m (13 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.
Show the other 13 with distances
- 5 mOlde CottageGrade II
- 28 mLambs CottageGrade II
- 32 mWhite Cottage and ElleswoodGrade II
- 45 mPococksGrade II
- 56 mKings Head InnGrade II
- 57 mStable Block About 10 Metres North of the ElmsGrade II
- 68 mBarn About 20 Metres North West of the ElmsGrade II
- 89 mThe ElmsGrade II
- 110 mCoach House About 20 Metres East of BolingbrokeGrade II
- 112 mFormer Barn at G.G. Baxter's factoryGrade II
- 114 mBolingbrokeGrade II
- 136 mCourt CottagesGrade II
- 142 mSarre Court HotelGrade II
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Nutrient neutrality catchment: Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/Ramsar
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Sarre Conservation Area 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.
Article 4 direction
Birchington & Rural ED. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 1. 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.
National infrastructure project 72 m away: Richborough Connection Project
The site is 72 m from the project boundary. Electricity line, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Also on the record
Tree preservation order 22 m away.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site
Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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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- Council
- Thanet
- Application type
- Trees in a conservation area application
- Postcode
- CT7 0LB
- Received
- 14 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 15 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Thanet Villages
- Parish
- Sarre Parish Council
- Case officer
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- Target decision
- 9 Sept 2026
- Decision
- Raise No Objection
- Decision date
- 13 Sept 2026
- Applicant
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- Agent
- About Trees Ltd
How this decision compares
Decided in 60 days from validation, 7 days slower than Thanet's median of 53 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.
This one60d
Council53d
UK36d
81%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
12%go to committee
Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Thanet in the last twelve months, from validation. Thanet decision record →
Public comments
No public comments yet.
Last counted 4 Sept 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Consultation
- 15 Jul 2026
- Comments by
- 5 Aug 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 9 Sept 2026
Historical activity at this location
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Thanet
Planning Authority Score
4.5/10
Below average
#175 of 296 councils
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Thanet ranks #171 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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Thanet decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
91%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #103 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #122 of 296
62%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #171 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #196 of 296
79%
Minor dwellings approved
105 decided (1-9 homes)
85%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
90%
Change of use approved
50 decided
751
Total decisions
67 refused in the year to March 2026
Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use
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