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Alexandra Guest House 40 - 42 Alexandra Road Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP2 5BP

24/01220/RETRetention of DevelopmentApproved

Approved on 16 October 2024

Council decision: Grant Permission/ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective planning for a timber outbuilding with a maximum height of 2.5m

Received
31 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
16
Ward
Hemel Hempstead Town
Agent
AC DESIGN SOLUTIONS LTD
  1. Received31 May
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 117 days

About this application

This is a planning application for an outbuilding at Alexandra Guest House 40 - 42 Alexandra Road Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP2 5BP. Dacorum has handled 6,920 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 13 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Hemel Hempstead Town. We hold 1,372 applications in total for the HP2 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
HP2 5BP
Application type
Retention of Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2024
Consultation expiry
29 August 2024
Neighbour consultation start
3 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end
24 July 2024
Last date for comments
29 August 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
AC DESIGN SOLUTIONS LTD
Architect profile
AC DESIGN SOLUTIONS LTD
Agent address
Office 301 Belmont Close Belmont Road Ub8 1he United Kingdom

Publicity

Site notice start
8 August 2024
Site notice end
29 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13105817
Documents
26
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.

© 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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