Able House 1 Figtree Hill Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP2 5XH
Approved on 2 May 2013
Council decision: Grant Permission/ConsentDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Demolition of the existing office premises and construction of a mixed use development comprising commercial use at ground floor (retail or offices) with 3 floors of residential dwellings providing eleven two bedroom flats.
- Received
- 28 January 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dacorum Borough Council
- Ward
- Hemel Hempstead Town
- Agent
- Alexander Elliott Ltd
- ReceivedReceived28 Jan
- ValidatedValidated1 Feb
- Consult.Consultation22 Feb
- TargetTarget Date26 Apr
- DecidedDecided2 May
Decided in 90 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for demolition at Able House 1 Figtree Hill Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP2 5XH. Dacorum has handled 723 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 6 weeks longer than Dacorum's typical decision time. The site is in 16 listed buildings nearby. 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.
89% of outline 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
- HP2 5XH
- Application type
- Major Outline Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Tring Rural Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 February 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 6 March 2013
- Consultation start
- 1 February 2013
- Consultation end
- 22 February 2013
- Neighbour consultation start
- 1 February 2013
- Target decision date
- 26 April 2013
- Decision issued
- 3 May 2013
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Alexander Elliott Ltd
- Architect profile
- ALEXANDER ELLIOTT LIMITED
- Agent address
- 224 Ballards Lane London N3 2LX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 84 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 13 February 2013
- Advertisement expiry
- 6 March 2013
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Hemel Hempstead Old TownPart of the site
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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