Ravensburgh Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JN Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 25/02777/TCA
Trees & landscaping
Council
North Hertfordshire 6.9/10
Date received
30 Oct 2025
Date validated
30 Oct 2025
Postcode
SG5 3JN

Description

G7: Common Ash - Remove dead wood. Trim branches to source on trunk arising around 4m above ground level. Reduce tip of the branch. Main cut approx 9.5m above ground level. G8: English Yews - Crown lift over the driveway to clear 3.5m. Remove ivy and treat at the base of the trees. G9: Group Leyland Cypress - Remove, grind stumps to 250mm below ground level. 10: Norway Maple - Remove branch measuring about 120mm in diameter overhanging the road to source on trunk. 11: Sycamore - Remove dead wood throughout crown and remove to source on trunk lowest cluster of 3no. branches overhanging the road. 12: White Willow - Reduce to approx 4m in height. 13, 14: Sycamore - Prune to clear 5.5m over road, and 1.5m back from kerb-line. 15: Mixed - Prune to clear 5.5m over road, and 1.5m back from kerb-line. 17: Apple - Remove including stump. 18: Purple Plum - Remove; grind stump to 250mm below ground level. 19: English Yew - Remove; grind stump to 250mm below ground level Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 8

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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Chilterns National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Hexton 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.
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Agricultural land, grade 3a
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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
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; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Registered park or garden about 182 m away: Hexton Manor.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 10 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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £1,000,000 in October 2024. Detached house, freehold.

14 October 2024£1,000,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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

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Nearby activity

2023 Approved
Land Outside The Old Vicarage Barton Road Hexton Hertfordshire SG5 3JN
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2023 Approved
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Sycamore - Remove
23/02478/TCA
2022 Approved
1 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JJ
Douglas fir - Reduce the height clear of wires
22/02305/TCA
2022 Approved
1 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JJ
Douglas fir - Reduce the height clear of wires
22/02305/TCA
2022 Withdrawn
1 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JJ
Douglas fir - Fell to ground level.
22/01407/TCA
2022 Withdrawn
1 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JJ
Douglas fir - Fell to ground level.
22/01407/TCA
2020 Approved
2 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JJ
S2 Privet, S3 Box, SG2 Mixed species group - Fell
20/00943/TCA
2020 Approved
2 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3JJ
S2 Privet, S3 Box, SG2 Mixed species group - Fell
20/00943/TCA
2016 Approved
1 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin SG5 3JJ
Remove one Cypress tree.
16/01118/1TCA
2016 Approved
1 Red Lion Cottages Barton Road Hexton Hitchin SG5 3JJ
Remove one Cypress tree.
16/01118/1TCA
North Hertfordshire
Planning Authority Score
6.9/10
Good
#66 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North Hertfordshire ranks #128 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North Hertfordshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #62 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #87 of 296
69%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #128 of 296
32%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #65 of 296
82%
Minor dwellings approved
112 decided (1-9 homes)
84%
Major dwellings approved
19 decided (10+ homes)
90%
Change of use approved
21 decided
1,102
Total decisions
82 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.