Rowley Lane Sports Ground Rowley Lane Barnet EN5 3HW

15/06912/RCURetention/Continued UseRefused

Discharge / amendments

Refused on 3 November 2017

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use from Assembly/leisure (D2) to Nursery(D1) (Retrospective planning application)

Received: 11 November 2015
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 1
Council: London Borough of Barnet
Ward: High Barnet

ReceivedReceived11 Nov
ValidatedValidated26 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date21 Jan
DecidedDecided3 Nov

Decided in 708 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Rowley Lane Sports Ground Rowley Lane Barnet EN5 3HW. Barnet has handled 579 applications of this type. This one was decided in 723 days, 95 weeks longer than Barnet's typical decision time. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 231 applications across High Barnet. We hold 3,747 applications in total for the EN5 postcode area.

70% of amendment applications at London Borough of Barnet were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: EN5 3HW
Application type: Retention/Continued Use
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 November 2015
Consultation expiry: 24 December 2015
Neighbour consultation start: 8 March 2019
Target decision date: 21 January 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 3 December 2015
Site notice end: 24 December 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-04554473
Documents: 10

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Article 4 direction: Article 4 Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Area 1
Green belt: Barnet
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Barnet

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