174 Wilbury Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4JA
Approved on 17 April 2026
Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Removal of 8.5m front hedgerow
- Received
- 12 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Letchworth Norton Ward
- ReceivedReceived12 Mar
- ValidatedValidated12 Mar
- Consult.Consultation9 Apr
- TargetTarget Date22 Apr
- DecidedDecided17 Apr
Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 174 Wilbury Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4JA. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 4JA
- Application type
- Hedgerow Removal Notice
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Letchworth Garden City
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 9 April 2026
- Consultation end
- 9 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 9 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 22 April 2026
- Decision issued
- 21 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 21 April 2031
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 41 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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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Associated applications
- 202612 Mar
Removal of 8.5m front hedgerow
This applicationApprovedTrees26/00658/HN - 202610 Mar
Sycamore (species amended)- Removal
ApprovedTrees (Conservation Area)Filed alongside26/00616/TCA
Source: North Hertfordshire
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