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Ridgmont Plaza 36 Ridgmont Road St Albans Hertfordshire

TP/2025/0191Tree works to TPO trees(s)Approved

Approved on 1 September 2025

Council decision: Treeworks approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

� T1 Lime Re pollard back to original points, approximate reduction of 4m (T3 on TPO1872) � T2 Lime Re pollard back to original points, approximate reduction of 4m (T4 on TPO1872) � T3 Sycamore Cut back by 1m to boundary fence line and off Car Park � G

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided1 Sep

Decided in 124 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ridgmont Plaza 36 Ridgmont Road St Albans Hertfordshire. St Albans has handled 1,557 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 12 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across St Peters. We hold 3,226 applications in total for the AL1 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at St Albans City and District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL1 3AB
Application type
Tree works to TPO trees(s)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2025
Consultation expiry
21 May 2025
Consultation end
21 May 2025
Target decision date
21 May 2025
Application expires
24 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: St Albans - Alma Road and Priory ParkPart of the site · +1 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: St Albans South Signal BoxOn or next to this site
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO1872Protected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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: St Albans

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