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31, Water Lane, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2JZ

3/13/1759/LBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 5 December 2013

Council decision: Grant Plan PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Regularisation of alterations for conversion to residential.

Received
30 September 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bishops Stortford - Meads
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 31, Water Lane, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2JZ. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,410 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 3 days longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.

84% of heritage applications at East Hertfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CM23 2JZ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2013
Consultation expiry
21 November 2013
Committee meeting
5 April 2018
Decision issued
6 December 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pellings
Agent address
Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet, Herts, EN4 9EB

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
21 November 2013

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-02907830
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bishop's Stortford
  • Listed building: Grade II: Stead and Simpson Ashwell and ChambersOn this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: First and Second Floors, 42 North Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2LRRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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.

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: East Hertfordshire

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