Hedge removal in a conservation area/village

[einstein]

I'm looking to remove a small length of hedge, possibly 3 meters to give me access to park my car and truck on an orchard adjacent to my house.
Can i do this without asking ?I understand that hedges cant have tpo,s
It is my hedge and on my land .
Although my tiny village lies within a conservation area, I don't think any neighbors would object, in fact it was one of them who suggested the idea and it would really help with parking in the village which is becoming a bit of an issue.
TIA

 

[Thick Farmer]

I thought you could remove upto 30 metres per year.

 

[Fendt516profi]

You could remove the car which crashed through it in the night

 

[Lincs Lass]

If anybody asks ,,the roots are growing into your drains and blocking them so you pulled it out .

 

[solo]

Conservation area rules mean you will need permission. I had a battle to remove a similar length to provide off road parking. Had to do it as part of house renovation with planning in a conservation area. Strung planning out by another six months, but got permission in the end. Google earth is the planners friend

 

[nick...]

In my experience you are best to do it and pay the fine when questions get asked.time you apply for planning,employ professional people and deal with all the do gooders you could have done it all.this regularly happens on building sites where trees are concerned and I know 2 farmers not far from me who bought farms with hedges,trees and wide banks which where there at bed time and not when we got up.
nick...

 

[br jones]

In my experience you are best to do it and pay the fine when questions get asked.time you apply for planning,employ professional people and deal with all the do gooders you could have done it all.this regularly happens on building sites where trees are concerned and I know 2 farmers not far from me who bought farms with hedges,trees and wide banks which where there at bed time and not when we got up.
nick...

That is an idiotic staement ,just pay the fine! ,planners have long memorys ,

 

[nick...]

That is an idiotic staement ,just pay the fine! ,planners have long memorys ,

You may not agree but it happens all the time.like it or not
nick...

 

[roscoe erf]

That is an idiotic staement ,just pay the fine! ,planners have long memorys ,

its a statement of fact like it or not

 

[Suffolk boy]

This might answer a few questions https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countryside-hedgerows-regulation-and-management

 

[neilo]

This might answer a few questions https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countryside-hedgerows-regulation-and-management

From there: "A hedgerow is not protected if it’s in, or marks the boundary of, a private garden"

Does that not cover the OP's case? Or at least murky & vague enough to do so?

 

[Suffolk boy]

From there: "A hedgerow is not protected if it’s in, or marks the boundary of, a private garden"

Does that not cover the OP's case? Or at least murky & vague enough to do so?

Vague enough, yes! I think this point is probably something which could catch people out

• marks all or part of a parish boundary that existed before 1850

 

[JCMaloney]

Local field was sold off for houses, the villagers were jubilant that the hedgerow at the front was "protected and important".
They got irate when the bird netting went over it and apoplectic when it was smouldering pile of ash as the site was cleared and levelled.
Planning application said something like "retain hedge unless road safety/site access is an issue".
Developer provided evidence of visual obstruction... with an image taken from Google Earth some 3 years earlier conveniently acquired before it was cut back.

 

[farmerm]

A lot will depend on your neighbors and your position in the social scene... I reckon round these parts the clique that following every local planning application would praise some folk for applying to create an open cast mine and would massively condemned others for suggesting the removal of a dangerous tree limb overhanging the road. Who you know and how you are known

You biggest issue might actually not be the removal of hedge but rather the issue of creating or modifying a point of access to the public highway.... That almost certainly would need planning consent.

 

[Exfarmer]

A lot will depend on your neighbors and your position in the social scene... I reckon round these parts the clique that following every local planning application would praise some folk for applying to create an open cast mine and would massively condemned others for suggesting the removal of a dangerous tree limb overhanging the road. Who you know and how you are known

You biggest issue might actually not be the removal of hedge but rather the issue of creating or modifying a point of access to the public highway.... That almost certainly would need planning consent.

I believe an unclassified road does not need planning for access. New entrances onto a main road are phenomenally exPensive and require “ approved” contractors to install a vision splay

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

We pulled a bit of hedge out to put a gateway on an unclassified road. 18 months of cocking about and several hundred pounds of retrospective planning later.... All the council do is create jobs for themselves.

 

[Still Farming]

Trick around here seems claim every wildlife and organic payment to encourage envoirnment ,then as these reduce ,hard cut back and constant Glysophate spray and years later apply to remove low value hedges or banks and get away with it?.
Worlds mad and as stated lots turn a blind eye or don't seem to recall or worry when others reported and watched to the inch???

 

[robs1]

We pulled a bit of hedge out to put a gateway on an unclassified road. 18 months of cocking about and several hundred pounds of retrospective planning later.... All the council do is create jobs for themselves.

And tell lies,

 

[robs1]

A dead hedge needs removing