Waterfront House Station Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3BL
Proposal
Demolition of office building and erection of a five storey residential block consisting of 10 two bedroom flats
- Received
- 18 August 2022
- Decided
- 19 January 2023 · Refuse
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 11
- Ward
- Bishops Stortford - Central
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- ReceivedReceived18 Aug
- ValidatedValidated21 Oct
- Consult.Consultation19 Jan
- TargetTarget Date20 Jan
- DecidedDecided19 Jan
Decided in 90 days (council typically 63)
This is a full planning application for demolition at Waterfront House Station Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3BL. East Hertfordshire has handled 7,264 applications of this type and approves 78% of them, typically deciding them in 59 days. This one was decided in 154 days, 14 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's median. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 3,090 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Bishop's Stortford
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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.
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