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17B Mornington Digswell Welwyn AL6 0AJ

6/2025/2269/TPOWORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDERApproved

Approved on 6 January 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - 1 x Lombardy poplar to reduce by approx 4m in height T2 -1 x Lombardy poplar to reduce by approx 6m in height T3 - 1 x Lombardy poplar to reduce by approx 6m in height T4 -1 x Lombardy poplar to reduce by approx 6m in height and 3m in width T1-T4 - Reducing all trees to prevent further stem failures. The trees are now over mature and starting to decline. Reducing the tops will help stabilise the canopies in the short term until final removal is warranted. TPO 260

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Welwyn East
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 17B Mornington Digswell Welwyn AL6 0AJ. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks 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 0AJ
Application type
WORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDER
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Welwyn

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 January 2026
Consultation end
5 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
17 Crossway Welwyn Garden City AL8 7ED

Additional information

UPRN
100080989662

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.

Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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