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Highfield House 28 Hitchin Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3LU

26/01639/TCAApproved

Approved on 5 August 2026

Council decision: No Objection

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

Proposal

T1: Prunus - Reduce by 1.5m and thin by 25%

Received
29 June 2026
Ward
Letchworth South West Ward
  1. Received29 Jun
  2. Validated29 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Aug

Decided in 37 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Highfield House 28 Hitchin Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3LU. North Hertfordshire has handled 6,871 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 has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 157 applications across Letchworth South West Ward. We hold 910 applications in total for the SG6 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SG6 3LU
Parish
Letchworth Garden City

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Francis Mabbett

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    12 Aug

    Ash - Reduce by 4/5m

    ApprovedTrees (Conservation Area)24/01796/TCA

Source: North Hertfordshire

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