35 Bell Street Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9AR
Approved on 26 January 2022
Council decision: Prior Approval Req/Grant with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from Class E to Class C3 for one 1-bed apartment with partial retention of existing ground floor commercial space.
- Received
- 17 November 2021
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Sawbridgeworth
- ReceivedReceived17 Nov
- ValidatedValidated1 Dec
- Consult.Consultation20 Jan
- TargetTarget Date26 Jan
- DecidedDecided26 Jan
Decided in 56 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at 35 Bell Street Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9AR. East Hertfordshire has handled 13,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 7 days longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. 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
- 1 December 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 10 January 2022
- Last date for comments
- 20 January 2022
- Target decision date
- 26 January 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 7 Paynes Park Hitchin Herts SG5 1EH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 10 January 2022
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Sawbridgeworth
- 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 (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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: East Hertfordshire
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