Land Adj To 34 Ralph Swingler Place Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3GZ
Approved on 8 January 2025
Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
BEZG001: 8x Leyland Cypress - Cut to form hedge and clear sheds by 1m. BEZG002: 25x Mixed Species - Maintain clearance from car park and footpath to approximately 2.4m. BEZT002: Elm - Crown lift to 4.5m over highway (description amended 08/01/2025).
- Received
- 2 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Letchworth South West Ward
- ReceivedReceived2 Dec
- ValidatedValidated2 Dec
- Consult.Consultation26 Dec
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided8 Jan
Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Land Adj To 34 Ralph Swingler Place Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3GZ. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Letchworth South West 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 3GZ
- Application type
- Trees (Conservation Area)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Letchworth Garden City
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 26 December 2024
- Consultation end
- 26 December 2024
- Last date for comments
- 26 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 13 January 2025
- Permission expires
- 8 January 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- John O'Conner
- Agent address
- 2, Great North Road Welwyn Hertfordshire AL6 0PL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
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.
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Source: North Hertfordshire
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