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The Old Bakery 13B London Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 5NA

3/18/0638/ODPNPrior Notification Office to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 May 2018

Council decision: Prior Approval not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Class B1(a) offices to Class C3 residential for 3 residential flats.

Received
20 March 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Bishops Stortford - All Saints
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.11 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at The Old Bakery 13B London Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 5NA. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,009 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 11 days quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.

79% of outline 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 5NA
Application type
Prior Notification Office to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2018
Last date for comments
11 May 2018
Committee meeting
20 April 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7C Northgate End Bishop's Stortford Herts CM23 2ET

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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