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The Anchor London Road Bourne End Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 2RH

24/01805/FULFull Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 9 December 2025

Council decision: Refuse Permission/ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retention of existing public house and construction of two three-bedroom dwellings (Use Class C3) on land to the side of the existing public house (Sui Generis) utilising existing access off Bourne End Lane, with associated parking, hard and soft landscaping, including the reconfiguration of the public house beer garden and car park.

Received
8 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
33
Ward
Bovingdon / Flaunden / Chipperfield
Agent
CPC Planning Consultants
  1. Received8 Aug
  2. Validated27 Sep
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 438 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Anchor London Road Bourne End Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 2RH. Dacorum has handled 3,053 applications of this type. This one was decided in 488 days, 63 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. The site is in the Roker Park, Sunderland conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 164 applications across Bovingdon / Flaunden / Chipperfield. We hold 1,538 applications in total for the HP1 postcode area.

92% of full 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
HP1 2RH
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hemel Hempstead (No Parish)

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 September 2024
Consultation expiry
9 December 2024
Neighbour consultation start
25 November 2024
Neighbour consultation end
9 December 2024
Last date for comments
29 January 2025
Committee meeting
27 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
CPC Planning Consultants
Agent address
Unit 5 Clovelly Business Park Clovelly Road Southbourne West Sussex PO10 8PW United Kingdom

Publicity

Site notice start
29 October 2024
Site notice end
19 November 2024

Appeal history

3353316
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 2 April 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Appeal Against Conditions

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13128237
Documents
38
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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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