Lady Vane Close Shipbourne Tonbridge Kent Data via plota.co.uk

26/01716/TNCA - Tree Notification Conservation Area Awaiting decision

Proposal

1 x Large Oak - Reduce over-extended limbs over the garage and car parking area by approximately 6 to 8 metres, pruning back to suitable secondary growth points. Reduce remainder of crown by approximately 2 to 3 metres where required, in order to rebalance the overall crown structure. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 02:56

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Application progress

✓

Received

16 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 28 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 27 Oct 2026, from Tonbridge's recent tree and landscaping works.

Documents 3

Plans & drawings 1

PDF LOCATION OF TREE Drawing · 16 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 16 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 7

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Kent Downs National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Shipbourne 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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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 4. 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

3 listed buildings within 150 m; Open access land 11 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 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: Tonbridge
Application type: Tree Notification Conservation Area
Received: 16 Sept 2026
Validated: 16 Sept 2026
Ward: Bourne
Parish: Shipbourne
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 28 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Hatton Housing Trust limited

Decision outlook

Day 23 of the 56-day target. Tonbridge usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 41.

prediction

Day 2333 days to the 56-day target

74%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

245decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 30 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15226845
Planning Portal ref: PP-15226845
Statutory expiry: 28 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Tonbridge

Planning Authority Score

4/10

Below average

#193 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other decisions

Tonbridge is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #244 out of 296. 54% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (97%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Tonbridge decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

95%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #31 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #45 of 296

49%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #244 of 296

54%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #246 of 296

88%

Minor dwellings approved

96 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

11 decided (10+ homes)

89%

Change of use approved

9 decided

880

Total decisions

47 refused in the year to March 2026