84 Nightingale Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1RL
Approved on 7 July 2025
Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Beech - Crown raise maintenance up to 5/6m in height to provide clearance.
- Received
- 25 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Hitchin Bearton Ward
- Agent
- Ground Control Ltd
- ReceivedReceived25 Jun
- ValidatedValidated25 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date6 Aug
- DecidedDecided7 Jul
Decided in 12 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 84 Nightingale Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1RL. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 12 days, 5 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Hitchin Railway and Ransom's Recreation Ground conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 118 applications across Hitchin Bearton Ward. 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 1RL
- Application type
- Trees (Conservation Area)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hitchin
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 7 July 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ground Control Ltd
- Agent address
- Kingfisher House Radford Way Billericay CM12 0EQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Hitchin Railway and Ransom's Recreation Ground
- Brownfield land register: Former B&Q, at junction of Nightingale and Walsworth Road, HitchinRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
- 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, 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 and heritage coasts.
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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