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14 Mardley Avenue Welwyn AL6 0UD

6/2023/1610/TPOWORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDERApproved

Approved on 4 October 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

3x Sweet Chestnut trees at no 14 Mardley Avenue - crown reduction to maintain, and to rectify any tree defects: T1 - Crown reduction of 4 meters in height (back to previous) and 2m in width (equating to 20%), tree is close to the dwelling of 19 Marlborough Close and foreseeable to cause mechanical damage in future T2 - Crown reduction of 2 meters, tree is growing up tight to the fence and over the garden of 19 Marlborough Close and 2 Rosecroft Lane obstructing light penetration to the garden T3 - Crown reduction of 2 metres (equating to 20%) with dead wooding, tree is growing up tight to the fence and over the garden of 2 Rosecroft Lane obstructing light penetration to the garden

Received
3 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Welwyn East
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated10 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 14 Mardley Avenue Welwyn AL6 0UD. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Welwyn East. We hold 969 applications in total for the AL6 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL6 0UD
Application type
WORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDER
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Welwyn

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Poplar Farm Long Lane Stevenage Hertfordshire SG2 7HF

Additional information

UPRN
100080989425

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    2 May

    Crown reductions by up to a third (10-15-feet

    RefusedTrees6/2023/0922/TPO

Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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