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Eden House 21A Knight Street Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9AT

3/21/3038/FULFull ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 19 July 2022

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of garage/ outbuilding to one 1 bedroom detached two-storey dwelling with two additional car-parking spaces, alterations to fenestration and openings, the addition of roof lights and new windows and installation of air source heat pump.

Received
7 December 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Sawbridgeworth
  1. Received7 Dec
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.9 Aug
  4. Target9 Mar
  5. Decided19 Jul

Decided in 188 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Eden House 21A Knight Street Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9AT. East Hertfordshire has handled 7,264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 224 days, 23 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Sawbridgeworth conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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.

80% of full 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
CM21 9AT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sawbridgeworth Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2022
Consultation expiry
10 February 2022
Last date for comments
9 August 2022
Target decision date
9 March 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Neville House Station Road Wendens Ambo Saffron Walden CB11 4LB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
10 February 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10438208
Documents
17
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Sawbridgeworth
  • Listed building: 19 Knight StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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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