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Fern Cottage 40 First Avenue Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 9BL

CH/2015/2239/SACertificate of Lawful Use - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 February 2016

Council decision: Cert of law proposed dev or use issuedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed operation relating to the erection of a rear roof extension as a dormer structure with a Juliet balcony replacing one of first floor rear existing window and installation of one rooflights to front (North Elevation) roof slope and one obscured rooflight to side (West Elevation) roof slope

Received
15 December 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Amersham Town
Agent
Terence Fidler Partnership Limited
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.14 Jan
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a dormer extension at Fern Cottage 40 First Avenue Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 9BL. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 1,766 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 2,558 applications in total for the HP7 postcode area.

68% of outline applications at Chiltern South Bucks were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HP7 9BL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Amersham

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2015
Last date for comments
14 January 2016
Target decision date
9 February 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
Terence Fidler Partnership Limited
Agent address
65 High Street Kings Langley Hertfordshire WD4 9HU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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

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Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2009
    30 Oct

    Retention of single storey rear and basement level extension without compliance with Condition 3 of planning…

    RefusedDischarge of conditionsCH/2009/1473/FA
  2. 2007
    31 Jan

    Creation of raised terraces in rear garden including the retention and creation of retaining walls

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCH/2007/0161/FA
  3. 2006
    20 Jul

    Retention and completion of single storey rear and basement level extension (amendment to planning permission…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCH/2006/1336/FA
  4. 2006
    18 May

    Retention of works to recontour/raise ground levels including contruction of retaining walls

    RefusedFull ApplicationCH/2006/0910/FA
  5. 2005
    29 Apr

    Single storey rear and basement level extension

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCH/2005/0893/FA

Source: Chiltern South Bucks

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