Stockers House Stockers Farm Road Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 1NZ Data via plota.co.uk

26/0852/TCA - Works to trees in a conservation area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Tree Number - T1 Tree Type - Silver birch (Betula pendula) Approx. Diameter at 1.5m - 0.45m Approx. Height - 16m Approx. Crown Spread Diameter - 14m Location - See map Service - Crown Reduction Work Required - Reduce height by up to 3m and lateral spread on all sides by up to 3m, to finished crown dimensions of 13m height and 8m lateral spread Reason - To reduce lever arm stresses on large limbs and decrease the likelihood of failure Priority Code - C Tree number - T2 Tree type - Mulberry (Morus) Approx Height - 3m Location - See map Service - Prune Work required- Prune lateral limbs by removing approximately 0.5m Reason - To reduce stresses on stem Priority code -C Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
26 May 2026
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Approved
15 Jun 2026

Approved on 15 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF TREE - TCTCAZ TEMPLATE - CONSENT Decision · 15 Jun 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

IMG SKETCH PLAN Drawing · 26 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 26 May 2026 View ↗

Other documents 2

IMG PHOTO 1 Photo · 26 May 2026 View ↗ IMG PHOTO 2 Photo · 26 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 11

10 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Barn and Cart Shed About 35 Metres North North West of Stocker's Farm House, Grade II, about 22 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 ↗
Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Local nature reserve about 63 m away: Stockers Lake
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Public footpath about 24 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
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
Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 190 m away: Expansion of Heathrow Airport (Third Runway), at pre-application; Flood defence about 40 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 20 year flood); Priority habitat about 47 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
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, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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
Three Rivers
Application type
Works to trees in a conservation area
Postcode
WD3 1NZ
Received
26 May 2026
Validated
26 May 2026
Ward
Rickmansworth Town
Parish
Batchworth Community Council
Case officer
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Target decision
7 Jul 2026
Decision
Consent given on work to Tree apps
Decision date
15 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
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How this decision compares

Decided in 20 days from validation, 8 days faster than Three Rivers's median of 28 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 89% of tree and landscaping works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
89%approved
322decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14961822
Planning Portal ref
PP-14961822
Statutory expiry
7 Jul 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

9 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2019 Approved
5 day notice for removal of Silver Birch tree in the rear garden
19/1329/DDD
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2024 Approved
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Discharge of Condition 4 (Soft Landscaping) pursuant to planning permission 21/1984/FUL
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2022 Approved
Stockers Farm And Lock Stockers Farm Road Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 1NZ
Ash - fell
22/2373/TCA
2022 Approved
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Ash - fell
22/2373/TCA
2021 Approved
Stockers Farm Stockers Farm Road Rickmansworth WD3 1NZ
Retention of stables with enclosure and chicken coop
21/1984/FUL
2021 Approved
Stockers Farm Stockers Farm Road Rickmansworth WD3 1NZ
Retention of stables with enclosure and chicken coop
21/1984/FUL
2020 Approved
Stockers Farm Stockers Farm Road Rickmansworth WD3 1NZ
Discharge of Conditions 4 (Construction Management Plan), 5 (Contractor Parking) and 6 (O…
20/0042/DIS
2020 Approved
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Discharge of Conditions 4 (Construction Management Plan), 5 (Contractor Parking) and 6 (O…
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2019 Approved
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Change of use for temporary use of land for film-making with associated temporary sets an…
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Three Rivers
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#54 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Three Rivers is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #30 out of 296. Only 24% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Three Rivers decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #145 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #184 of 296
82%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #30 of 296
24%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #28 of 296
85%
Minor dwellings approved
62 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
94%
Change of use approved
17 decided
819
Total decisions
86 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings