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Lower Flat The Old Mill House Grove Mill Lane Grove Mill Watford Hertfordshire WD17 3TU

25/1686/DDDDead, diseased or dangerousApproved

Approved on 27 October 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

I have a large fir tree in my garden which I have been told is dying and should be felled. If the tree fell it would be a danger to the adjoining highway. I have a blanket TPO order affecting my property which is also situated in a conservation area. It is proposed that the tree would be felled and chopped up in my front garden. I have planted many new trees in my garden and have no proposals to plant a replacement tree. I want to fell the tree as soon as possible and I look forward to receiving consent to proceed. Thank you

Received
30 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chorleywood North And Sarratt
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Dec
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 6 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Lower Flat The Old Mill House Grove Mill Lane Grove Mill Watford Hertfordshire WD17 3TU. Three Rivers has handled 739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Three Rivers's typical decision time. The site is in the Grove Mill conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across Chorleywood North And Sarratt. We hold 1,594 applications in total for the WD17 postcode area.

92% of trees applications at Three Rivers District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WD17 3TU
Application type
Dead, diseased or dangerous
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sarratt Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Target decision date
16 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14368252
Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Grove Mill
  • Green belt: Watford

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, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Three Rivers

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