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61B Church Road Watford WD17 4PY

25/00933/TPOWorks to Preserved TreesApproved

Approved on 27 November 2025

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

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to tree/s under TPO.238 - T1 Hornbeam - 20% crown reduction, crown lift 2.5m above pavement, crown lift 5m above pavement and reduce longest laterals to bring back to shape 2-3m. T2 Horse Chestnut - 20% crown reduction, back to previous reduction points, 3-4m reduction back to suitable growth point, T3- Sycamore (neighbours tree back garden 50a Park Road) reduce back to boundary where possible

Received
20 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Nascot
  1. Received20 Oct
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target15 Dec
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 61B Church Road Watford WD17 4PY. Watford has handled 343 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Watford's typical decision time. The site is in the Nascot conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Nascot. We hold 1,594 applications in total for the WD17 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
WD17 4PY
Application type
Works to Preserved Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2025
Consultation expiry
11 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 November 2025
Target decision date
15 December 2025
Permission expires
27 November 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Dexter Trainor 34 St Georges Drive Watford WD19 5HB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Nascot
  • 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 (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: Watford

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