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Letchworth Police Station Nevells Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4ER

25/02236/TCATrees (Conservation Area)Approved

Approved on 30 September 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Mixed species - Cut back all overhanging branches along length of car park, back to the boundary line. Prune all branches and vegetation to provide a 1m horizontal clearance from the side elevation of the roof and a 4m horizontal clearance. Prune all branches to clear the roadside facing elevation of the roof by 2.5m horizontally and 4m vertically.

Received
4 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Letchworth Norton Ward
Agent
Evoke Tree Services Ltd
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.28 Sep
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided30 Sep

Decided in 26 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Letchworth Police Station Nevells Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4ER. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 3 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 102 applications across Letchworth Norton 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 4ER
Application type
Trees (Conservation Area)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Letchworth Garden City

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2025
Consultation expiry
28 September 2025
Consultation end
28 September 2025
Last date for comments
28 September 2025
Target decision date
16 October 2025
Decision issued
1 October 2025
Permission expires
1 October 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Evoke Tree Services Ltd
Agent address
17 Crossway Welwyn Garden City AL8 7ED

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14305719
Comments
0
Documents
8

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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