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Old Berkeley Cottage Old Common Road Chorleywood Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 5LW

26/0561/TCAWorks to trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 5 May 2026

Council decision: Consent given on work to Tree appsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Tree Number - H1 Tree Type - Yew (Taxus baccata) Approx Height - 3m Location - Rear garden, left hand boundary Service - Trim Work required - Trim sides to tidy, by removing up to 0.2m Reason - To form a compact hedge Priority - ON Tree number - H2 Tree type - Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata) Approx Height - 7m Location - Rear garden, right hand boundary Service - Hedge trimming Work required - Reduce height by removing up to 2m and trim/prune clients side only by removing up to 0.5m Reason - as part of regular maintenance. Priority code - ON Tree Number - G1 Tree Type - Group of 3x Hornbeam stems (Carpinus betulus) Approx. Diameter at 1.5m - 0.4m Approx. Height - 15m Approx. Crown Spread Diameter - 11m Location - Rear garden, near left rear boundary Service - Crown Reduction Work Required - Reduce height by up to 2m and lateral spread on all sides by up to 1.5m, to finished crown dimensions of 2m height and 8m lateral spread Reason - To reduce encroachment on adjacent structures and allow more light into garden Priority Code - ON

Received
8 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chorleywood North And Sarratt
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 May
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Berkeley Cottage Old Common Road Chorleywood Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 5LW. 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. 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 2,820 applications in total for the WD3 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
WD3 5LW
Application type
Works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chorleywood Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 April 2026
Target decision date
20 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Artemis Tree Services Ltd West Hyde Nursery Old Uxbridge Road Maple Cross Hertfordshire WD39XY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14838925
Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
11

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: Chorleywood Common
  • 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.

Source: Three Rivers

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