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Bloomsbury House UKPN Substation Adj. To 2A Hartsbourne Road Bushey Heath Hertfordshire WD23 1JH

21/0885/TRCTree Works in Conservation Area (6 Week)Approved

Approved on 19 May 2021

Council decision: Tree work in Conservation Area Consent

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1 HOLM OAK. Reduce height to 14m, by removing new growth from 2017 works back to previous pruning points. Reduce the side canopy to 10m spread, by removing new growth from 2017 works back to previous pruning points. Raise the lower canopy of the tree to a new level of 3m from ground level. This would be removing approx. 1-1.5m of growth from the lower canopy.

Received
23 April 2021
Ward
Bushey Heath
Agent
M.B.TREES(EAST ANGLIA)LTD
  1. Received23 Apr
  2. Validated26 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Bloomsbury House UKPN Substation Adj. To 2A Hartsbourne Road Bushey Heath Hertfordshire WD23 1JH. Hertsmere has handled 493 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Hertsmere's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Bushey Heath. We hold 1,928 applications in total for the WD23 postcode area.

79% of trees applications at Hertsmere Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WD23 1JH
Application type
Tree Works in Conservation Area (6 Week)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 April 2021
Target decision date
7 June 2021
Permission expires
19 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
M.B.TREES(EAST ANGLIA)LTD
Agent address
HOLLYBANK FORWARD GREEN EARL STONHAM STOWMARKET IP14 5HU ENGLAND

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09765846
Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Hertsmere

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