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Wood End Farm Grain Stores Wood End Lane Markyate St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 8AY

23/00712/AFUAgricultural Building to Flexible UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 22 May 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of part of agricultural building to a flexible commercial use falling within use class B8 (storage or Distribution)

Received
17 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Watling
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 66 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Wood End Farm Grain Stores Wood End Lane Markyate St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 8AY. Dacorum has handled 8 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 2 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Watling. We hold 2,254 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

94% of all applications at Dacorum Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL3 8AY
Application type
Agricultural Building to Flexible Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Flamstead Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Sworders
Agent address
The Gatehouse Hadham Hall Little Hadham Ware SG11 2EB

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12014103
Documents
10
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Listed building: Grade II: Woodend FarmOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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: Dacorum

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