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23 Hockerill Court London Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 5SB

3/23/1725/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 26 March 2024

Council decision: Grant Consent w Conds (LBC & ADV)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from office (B1 (a) to residential to create 1, 3 bedroomed dwelling. Internal alterations to include insertion of kitchen, raising of landing floor and insertion of walls with repairs to windows. Regularisation of the previous internal alterations to the building

Received
8 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bishop's Stortford All Saints
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 183 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at 23 Hockerill Court London Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 5SB. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,410 applications of this type. This one was decided in 200 days, 20 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Bishop's Stortford All Saints. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.

84% of heritage 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 5SB
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2023
Consultation expiry
2 November 2023
Last date for comments
27 November 2023
Target decision date
20 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
61 The Stewarts Bishops Stortford CM23 2NU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
2 November 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12442223
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bishop's Stortford
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 5, London RoadOn 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 (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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Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2024
    11 Oct

    Discharge of conditions 1 (3 Years), 2 (Approved Plans), 3 (Timber Structure), 4 (Windows) and 5 (Making…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsX/24/0452/CND
  2. 2023
    8 Sep

    Change of use from office (B1 (a) to residential to create 1, 3 bedroomed dwelling

    ApprovedFull ApplicationFiled alongside3/23/1724/FUL
  3. 2023
    8 Sep

    Change of use from office (B1 (a) to residential to create 1, 3 bedroomed dwelling. Internal alterations to…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent3/23/1725/LBC

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