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White Eaves High Road Essendon Hatfield AL9 6HU

6/2026/0168/TPOWORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDERApproved

Approved on 13 March 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Maple to remove and replant. T2 Sycamore pollard crown down and round in height by 4m, leaving roughly 1m stubs at the top of the tree and leaving lateral limbs at roughly 5m long. T3 Sycamore crown reduction by 1m. T4 Sycamore crown reduction by 1.5m in height and width, and crown lifted with branches wanting to be removed mark with red lines in photo attached. T5 Yew tree reduce main leader that comes out the top of the tree by 1.5m and prune remaining canopy in by 1m back to grown points. TPO 612 (2017)

Received
2 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brookmans Park & Little Heath
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.12 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at White Eaves High Road Essendon Hatfield AL9 6HU. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Brookmans Park & Little Heath. We hold 277 applications in total for the AL9 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
AL9 6HU
Application type
WORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDER
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Essendon

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Consultation expiry
12 February 2026
Consultation end
12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
76 Palmers Way Cheshunt Hertfordshire EN8 9HS

Additional information

UPRN
100081147792

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Welwyn Hatfield
  • 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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