37 Bell Street Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9AR
Refused on 16 December 2021
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from class E to class C3 (Residential) for 2 one bed apartments, with partial retention of existing ground floor commercial space.
- Received
- 12 October 2021
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Sawbridgeworth
- ReceivedReceived12 Oct
- ValidatedValidated21 Oct
- Consult.Consultation30 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided16 Dec
Decided in 56 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at 37 Bell Street Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9AR. East Hertfordshire has handled 13,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days. The site is in the Sawbridgeworth conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Sawbridgeworth. We hold 1,438 applications in total for the CM21 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- CM21 9AR
- Application type
- Commercial Class E to Dwelinghouses
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Sawbridgeworth Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 October 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 25 November 2021
- Last date for comments
- 30 November 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 7 Paynes Farm Hitchin Herts SG5 1EM
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 25 November 2021
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Sawbridgeworth
- Brownfield land register: Suite 2, Plymouth House, The Square, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AERegister 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: East Hertfordshire
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