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55 Queens Drive, -, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN8 7PR

07/26/0237/LDPLawful Dev. Cert. (Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 May 2026

Council decision: UNCONDITIONAL APPROVAL

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a residential children's home for no more than 3 children with no more than 2 staff members at any time (Use Class C2)

Submitted
26 March 2026
Ward
Waltham Cross
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.26 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 55 Queens Drive, -, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN8 7PR. Broxbourne has handled 781 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Waltham Cross. We hold 1,099 applications in total for the EN8 postcode area.

91% of outline applications at Broxbourne Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EN8 7PR
Application type
Lawful Dev. Cert. (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2026
Consultation expiry
26 March 2026
Consultation end
26 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Broxbourne

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