The Old Post Office High Street Barley Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8JA
Approved on 11 November 2026
Council decision: No Objection
Proposal
T1: Holly - Reduce height by 2.5ms and prune laterals all round by 1m to reshape into smaller conical shape, leaving at height of approx 8m, ensuring clearance to wall and adj thatch. T2: Walnut - Reduce back to previous pruning points, equating to reduction of overall regrowth of 2m.
- Received
- 4 November 2026
- ReceivedReceived4 Nov
- ValidatedValidated4 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided11 Nov
Decided in 7 days
About this application
This is a planning application at The Old Post Office High Street Barley Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8JA. North Hertfordshire has handled 6,871 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 6 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Barley conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- SG8 8JA
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 November 2026
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Barley
- 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.
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