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14A Copthorne Road Croxley Green Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 4AE

26/0424/TPOWorks to trees covered by a Tree Pres ORefused

Refused on 18 May 2026

Council decision: Refusal of work to Tree applicationsDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Front of property Beach trees x 4, crown lift of approx 3ft to clear them above phone lines to prevent contact with them and improve clearance above the road, reduce risk to obstruction of vehicles and pedestrians. Yew tree - crown lift my 5 meters to lift above driveway

Received
13 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dickinsons
  1. Received13 Mar
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Jun
  5. Decided18 May

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 14A Copthorne Road Croxley Green Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 4AE. Three Rivers has handled 739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Three Rivers's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Dickinsons. We hold 2,818 applications in total for the WD3 postcode area.

91% 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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Why it was refused

  1. 4x Beech - Crown lift by approximately 7 m to give 3ft clearance over phonelines. The proposed crown lifts to 4x Beech are severe and would be disfiguring. A site visit has confirmed that at present there is little risk of obstruction to the road, and the interference with phone lines could be remedied with lesser works. The Council has the authority to permit a lesser form of works, and gives approval for: 4x Beech - Lateral reduction of up to 1-2m on the roadside only, to reduce interference with phone lines. Yew - Crown lift to 5m. Any permission granted is limited to the provisions of the Tree Preservation Order and you are referred to the owner of the trees in the event that they are not in your ownership. If you intend to work on trees which are not owned by yourselves, and you are pruning back further than your boundary or require access to a third parties' property to carry out these works, then you will be required to seek the owner's permission. If you would like any further information about our decision please contact Blue Jenkins the Trees and Woodlands Officer for this application, quoting the reference number given above.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
WD3 4AE
Application type
Works to trees covered by a Tree Pres O
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Croxley Green Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2026
Target decision date
22 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Arbormedics 18 Sherfield Avenue Rickmansworth WD3 1NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14778396
Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
9

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 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Three Rivers

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