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50 Rickmansworth Road Watford WD18 7HT

25/00898/TPOWorks to Preserved TreesApproved

Approved on 19 November 2025

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

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to trees under TPO 184: T1 purple beech rear garden central. Goals: Remove disease dead wood, reduce size of crown height, reduce spread of crown all cardinal points, reduce density, Provide of clearance. Specifications: remove dead branches as needed, entire canopy, reduce live branches as needed, reduce height by 2.5m, reduce all live, interfering, over-extended branches, 3-4 metres length reduction, growing toward both neighbours gardens and 50 Rickmansworth Road, Remove 20 percent of live, diseased, rubbing branches, entire canopy, remove live, interfering branches as needed, lift lower canopy up to 8-9M from ground. Species Location. T2 Eucalyptus rear garden, Goals: begin the annual pollarding process down to a height of 5-6m. Specifications: remove all live branches, entire canopy.

Received
8 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Park
  1. Received8 Oct
  2. Validated8 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Dec
  5. Decided19 Nov

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 50 Rickmansworth Road Watford WD18 7HT. Watford has handled 343 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Watford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 7HT
Application type
Works to Preserved Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 October 2025
Target decision date
3 December 2025
Permission expires
19 November 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Kevin Woodham Coursers Farm Coursers Road Colney Heath AL4 0PD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14391312
Documents
4
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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