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Hatfield Community Free School Briars Lane Hatfield AL10 8ES

6/2026/0242/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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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Horse chestnut to reduce crown by 3m. Lime to reduce crown by 3m. (TPO 913 (2023))

Received
11 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hatfield South West
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hatfield Community Free School Briars Lane Hatfield AL10 8ES. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Hatfield South West. We hold 208 applications in total for the AL10 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
AL10 8ES
Application type
WORKS TO TREES WITH TREE PRESERVATION ORDER
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hatfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2026
Consultation expiry
13 February 2026
Consultation end
13 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Beech Farm Coopers Green Lane St. Albans AL4 9HP

Additional information

UPRN
200003858432

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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