16 Birds Hill Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1PJ
Approved on 19 August 2024
Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
2x Ash - Remove and removal of front hedgerow
- Received
- 17 July 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Letchworth South East Ward
- ReceivedReceived17 Jul
- ValidatedValidated17 Jul
- Consult.Consultation9 Aug
- TargetTarget Date28 Aug
- DecidedDecided19 Aug
Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 16 Birds Hill Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1PJ. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 2 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. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Letchworth South East Ward. 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 1PJ
- Application type
- Trees (Conservation Area)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Letchworth Garden City
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 9 August 2024
- Consultation end
- 9 August 2024
- Last date for comments
- 9 August 2024
- Target decision date
- 28 August 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 August 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- John O'Conner
- Agent address
- 2, Great North Road Welwyn Hertfordshire AL6 0PL United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: LetchworthPart of the site
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.
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Source: North Hertfordshire
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