Abbey Gate House 4 Abbey Mill Lane St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Hd

TP/2026/0044Tree works to TPO trees(s)Approved

Approved on 8 April 2026

Council decision: Treeworks approval

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

Proposal

Conservation Area Protected Trees - Tag number 9193 - Horse Chestnut - Impacting dwelling. Side reduce lower crown away from dwelling by 2.1m to suitable parent branches to provide 2m clearance from side elevation. Tag Number 51 - Plum - Multi-stemmed wit

Received: 2 February 2026
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Verulam

ReceivedReceived2 Feb
ValidatedValidated5 Feb
Consult.Consultation26 Feb
TargetTarget Date26 Feb
DecidedDecided8 Apr

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Abbey Gate House 4 Abbey Mill Lane St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Hd. St Albans has handled 1,557 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 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: AL3 4HD
Application type: Tree works to TPO trees(s)
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 February 2026
Consultation expiry: 26 February 2026
Consultation end: 26 February 2026
Target decision date: 26 February 2026
Application expires: 1 April 2026

Planning decision

Case officer: Roz Richardson
Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14670626
Documents: 3

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: St Albans - Abbey Mill Lane
Listed building: Grade II*: Abbey Gate HouseOn or next to this site
Article 4 direction: Verulam and Fishpool Street
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, 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.

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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2 Feb
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This applicationApprovedTreesTP/2026/0044

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Source: St Albans

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