Cedar Tree Cottage Offley Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2AZ

25/00627/TPOTrees (Tree Preservation Order)Approved

Approved on 11 April 2025

Council decision: Conditional ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

A1: Cedar - Reduce lateral limbs by up to 1m to viable growth points.

Received: 7 March 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: North Hertfordshire District Council
Ward: Hitchin Priory Ward

ReceivedReceived7 Mar
ValidatedValidated7 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date2 May
DecidedDecided11 Apr

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Cedar Tree Cottage Offley Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2AZ. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,992 applications in total for the SG5 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: SG5 2AZ
Application type: Trees (Tree Preservation Order)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hitchin

Planning application dates

Date validated: 7 March 2025
Target decision date: 2 May 2025
Decision issued: 14 April 2025
Permission expires: 14 April 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent: The Blue Tree Company
Agent address: 50 Bunyan Road Hitchin SG5 1NN

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13835355
Comments: 0
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.

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.

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© 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.

Source: North Hertfordshire

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