Middle Bottom Field Dunstable Road Markyate St Albans Hertfordshire
Approved on 21 January 2026
Council decision: Grant Permission/ConsentDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Retention of an earth bund located along the most eastern field boundary.
- Received
- 19 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Dacorum Borough Council
- Ward
- Watling
- ReceivedReceived19 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Nov
- Consult.Consultation15 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided21 Jan
Decided in 63 days
About this application
This is a planning application at Middle Bottom Field Dunstable Road Markyate St Albans Hertfordshire. Dacorum has handled 6,920 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 2 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Watling.
Application details
- Application type
- Retention of Development
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Markyate Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 15 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 15 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 29 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Weldon Beesly
- Agent address
- The Old Dairy Barn Offley Hoo Hoo Lane Hitchin SG5 3ED
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14484099
- Documents
- 19
- Constraints
- 16
Site constraints
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.
Associated applications
- 20262 Feb
Details as required by Condition 3 (Biodiversity Gain Plan) attached to planning permission 25/02836/RET
ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/00216/DRC - 202519 Nov
Retention of an earth bund located along the most eastern field boundary.
This applicationApprovedApplication25/02836/RET
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Dacorum
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