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Ridgeway House School Park Playing Fields Wills Grove London NW7 1QJ

TCP/0160/26Trees: Notices of IntentApproved

Approved on 30 April 2026

Council decision: Trees: Not to make TPODelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1 x Lawson Cypress (applicants ref. T079) - Fell. 1 x Oak (applicants ref. T088) - Crown reduce by 2-3 metres and fell x 4 oak x 1 sycamore tree to provide a 'halo' around vetern oak. 1 x Oak (applicants ref. T132) - Reduce by 5m to short habitat pole. Hornbeam, Oak, Turkey Oak, Elm and Laurel Group (applicants ref. T135) - Remove dead wood over path and playing field.(exempt work) 1 x hornbeam (Small Dead Tree) (applicants ref. T135) - Fell. (exempt work) (amended descriptions) 4 x Dead Elm (applicants ref. T135) - Fell. (exempt work) x1 Hornbeam (applicants ref. T135 tag 804) - Crown reduce by 5m on the leaning side. 1 x Wild Cherry (applicants ref. T139) - Fell.

Received
24 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Mill Hill
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Apr
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ridgeway House School Park Playing Fields Wills Grove London NW7 1QJ. Barnet has handled 1,310 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Barnet's typical decision time. The site is in the Mill Hill conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 132 applications across Mill Hill. We hold 1,046 applications in total for the NW7 postcode area.

90% of trees applications at London Borough of Barnet were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NW7 1QJ
Application type
Trees: Notices of Intent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2026
Target decision date
7 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
53 Belmont Road Hemel Hempstead HP3 9NY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14730018
Comments
0
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Mill HillPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Ridgeway HouseOn this site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Area 1+1 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref TRE/HE/3Part of the site · +1 more
  • Green belt: BarnetPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Barnet

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