53 Great Elms Road Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 9TZ

24/01206/RETRetention of DevelopmentRefused

Refused on 28 August 2024

Council decision: Refuse Permission/ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

To convert the existing property into a 3 bedroom house and a 2 bedroom house

Received: 29 May 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 4
Council: Dacorum Borough Council
Ward: Bennetts End

ReceivedReceived29 May
ValidatedValidated3 Jul
Consult.Consultation26 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided28 Aug

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 53 Great Elms Road Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 9TZ. Dacorum has handled 6,920 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 6 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Bennetts End. We hold 1,287 applications in total for the HP3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: HP3 9TZ
Application type: Retention of Development
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hemel Hempstead (No Parish)

Planning application dates

Date validated: 3 July 2024
Consultation expiry: 1 August 2024
Neighbour consultation start: 5 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end: 26 July 2024
Last date for comments: 1 August 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 28 Berkeley Square Hemel Hemptead Herts HP2 7QS

Publicity

Site notice start: 11 July 2024
Site notice end: 1 August 2024

Additional information

Documents: 13
Constraints: 8

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (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.

Source: Dacorum

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