The Old Sorting Office High Street Hartley Wintney Hook RG27 8NZ Data via plota.co.uk

26/00640/CA - To do Works to Trees in a Con Area Approved

Proposal

T1 - Sycamore - Reduce to give 2m clearance from Fleur-de-Lis building. Reduce limb/stems back to the previous pruning points by removing up to 1.5m of regrowth. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
16 Apr 2026
✓
Approved
30 Jun 2026

Approved on 30 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Site constraints 8

10 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Post Office and Bank, Hartley Row, Grade II, about 10 m from the postcode pin · 10 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Hartley Wintney conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Article 4 direction
Hartley Wintney. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the Hartley Wintney built-up area; Priority habitat about 27 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Open access land about 18 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed.; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Hart
Application type
To do Works to Trees in a Con Area
Postcode
RG27 8NZ
Received
16 Apr 2026
Validated
16 Apr 2026
Ward
Hartley Wintney
Parish
Hartley Wintney
Case officer
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Target decision
28 May 2026
Decision
No Objection
Decision date
30 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Heritage Tree Services Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 75 days from validation, 22 days slower than Hart's median of 53 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

78%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
325decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Hart in the last twelve months, from validation. Hart decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14863413
Planning Portal ref
PP-14863413
Statutory expiry
28 May 2026
Env. assessment
No
Hart
Planning Authority Score
4.7/10
Below average
#165 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Hart ranks #116 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hart decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #223 of 296
86%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #244 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #116 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #111 of 296
64%
Minor dwellings approved
45 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
2 decided (10+ homes)
81%
Change of use approved
16 decided
698
Total decisions
114 refused in the year to March 2026