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Watford Grammar School For Boys Rickmansworth Road Watford WD18 7JF

23/00517/TPOWorks to Preserved TreesApproved

Approved on 11 July 2023

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

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

Proposal

Works to trees under TPO.112 - T35 5x lime trees by the sports hall. Fell to Ground Level. T1 Lime trees Repollard to previous, T2 London Plane repollard to previous, T3 Ash Tree to fell, T4 Group London Plane to pollard by 30%,T5 Ash Tree to fell.

Received
13 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Park
  1. Received13 Jun
  2. Validated4 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 7 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Watford Grammar School For Boys Rickmansworth Road Watford WD18 7JF. Watford has handled 343 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Watford's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Park. We hold 323 applications in total for the WD18 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
WD18 7JF
Application type
Works to Preserved Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 July 2023
Target decision date
29 August 2023
Permission expires
11 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Jack Rimington 17 Sycamore Rise Berkhamsted HP4 2JZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12232462
Documents
13
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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