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3 Gainswood Welwyn Garden City AL7 3XG

6/2025/2586/EMTESTATE MANAGEMENT TREESApproved

Approved on 16 February 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prunus: Reduce in height by 3m and reducing the apex branches to a point that is in shape with the rest of the tree. Bringing total height to 4m

Received
17 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Peartree
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated24 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Feb

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 3 Gainswood Welwyn Garden City AL7 3XG. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. The site is in the Peartree conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Peartree. We hold 714 applications in total for the AL7 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
AL7 3XG
Application type
ESTATE MANAGEMENT TREES
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 December 2025
Consultation expiry
28 January 2026
Consultation end
28 January 2026

Additional information

UPRN
100080975236

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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