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17 Sherwoods Road Watford WD19 4AY

21/00325/TPOWorks to Preserved TreesApproved

Approved on 6 April 2021

Council decision: Tree Works Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees under TPO No.261 T6 - Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) Approx Height - 13m Location - Rear garden left hand boundary Service - Crown Reduction Work required- crown reduce (just above previous points) by removing approximately 2- 2.5m from all over as guidance but pruning to suitable growth points to maintain trees best form. Raise the lower crown to approximately 5.2m over the road only Reason - as part of continued maintenance to control and contain - T5 - Yew (taxus baccatta) Approx Height - 8m Location - Rear garden left hand boundary Service - Crown Reduction Work required- crown reduce by removing approximately 1-1.5m from all over as guidance but pruning to suitable growth points to maintain trees best form Reason - as per clients wishes to form a more compact tree and to contain overall size of tree for size of the garden

Received
4 March 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Oxhey
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated16 Mar
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target11 May
  5. Decided6 Apr

Decided in 21 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 17 Sherwoods Road Watford WD19 4AY. Watford has handled 343 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 2 weeks quicker than Watford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Oxhey. We hold 905 applications in total for the WD19 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Watford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WD19 4AY
Application type
Works to Preserved Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 March 2021
Consultation expiry
7 April 2021
Consultation start
17 March 2021
Consultation end
7 April 2021
Last date for comments
7 April 2021
Target decision date
11 May 2021
Permission expires
6 April 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Kirstie Harvey West Hyde Nursery Old Uxbridge Road West Hyde WD3 9XY Herts

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09587568
Documents
8
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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.

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