49-51 South Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3AG
Approved on 18 June 2015
Council decision: CL Existing GrantDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Use of premises as cafe/restaurant (use class A3)
- Received
- 20 April 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bishops Stortford - Meads
- Agent
- Arch Planning & Licensing
- ReceivedReceived20 Apr
- ValidatedValidated29 Apr
- Consult.Consultation15 Jul
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided18 Jun
Decided in 50 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 49-51 South Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3AG. East Hertfordshire has handled 454 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 4 days quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.
69% of amendment 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 3AG
- Application type
- Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bishops Stortford Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 April 2015
- Last date for comments
- 15 July 2015
- Committee meeting
- 3 February 2018
- Decision issued
- 24 June 2015
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Arch Planning & Licensing
- Agent address
- 33B Grand Parade Green Lanes Haringey London N4 1LG
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bishop's Stortford
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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, 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
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© 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: East Hertfordshire
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