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83 Spring Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3SL

23/02573/TCATrees (Conservation Area)Approved

Approved on 27 November 2023

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Beech - Crown reduction and thinning by 20-30% (9 -13.5 feet / 2.5 - 4m). Remove the front stem. T2 Cherry - Remove. T3 Weeping Willow - Light crown reduction (4-6 feet / 2m) on the right side to leave it with a balanced and natural shape.

Received
2 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Letchworth South West Historic
Agent
The Eco Arborist Limited
  1. Received2 Nov
  2. Validated2 Nov
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target14 Dec
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 83 Spring Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3SL. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 910 applications in total for the SG6 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at North Hertfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SG6 3SL
Application type
Trees (Conservation Area)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Letchworth Garden City

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 November 2023
Consultation expiry
25 November 2023
Consultation end
25 November 2023
Last date for comments
25 November 2023
Target decision date
14 December 2023
Decision issued
28 November 2023
Permission expires
28 November 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Eco Arborist Limited
Agent address
7 Elms Road Ware SG12 7HT United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12575465
Comments
0
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Letchworth
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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: North Hertfordshire

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