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Letchmore House The Green Letchmore Heath Watford Hertfordshire WD25 8ES

26/1341/TRCApproved

Approved on 5 October 2026

Council decision: Tree work in Conservation Area Consent

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

Proposal

T1: Poplar (20m): Remove lower 7 branches as marked on photo to allow more light and rainwater into beds T2: Maple (16m): Fell due to excessive lean and risk of snapping branches T3: Willow (15m): Reduce crown over neighbouring property by 3m to prevent overextending branches snapping. Starting height:15m - final height 15m. Starting spread 15m - final spread 12m.

Received
28 September 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 4 November 2026
Ward
Aldenham West
  1. Received28 Sep
  2. Validated28 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Oct

Decided in 7 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Letchmore House The Green Letchmore Heath Watford Hertfordshire WD25 8ES. Hertsmere has handled 7,136 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker than Hertsmere's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchmore Heath conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 152 applications across Aldenham West. We hold 496 applications in total for the WD25 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WD25 8ES
Parish
Aldenham Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Mark Marino-Pigden

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Letchmore Heath
  • Green belt: Hertsmere
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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