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Hill Farm Northchurch Common Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 1LS

24/02816/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 25 March 2025

Council decision: Grant Permission/ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Demolition of existing 4 hay barns and construction of 6 new hay barns

Received
11 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Northchurch
  1. Received11 Dec
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 103 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Hill Farm Northchurch Common Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 1LS. Dacorum has handled 3,053 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 8 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Northchurch. We hold 651 applications in total for the HP4 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
HP4 1LS
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northchurch Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2024
Consultation expiry
8 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
16 December 2024
Neighbour consultation end
6 January 2025
Last date for comments
8 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Whitworth
Agent address
Whitworth Unit 12 Park Farm Business Centre Fornham St Genevieve Bury St Edmunds IP28 6TS United Kingdom

Publicity

Site notice start
18 January 2025
Site notice end
8 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13529705
Documents
10
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (21)

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, 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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