Westmill Landfill Westmill Road Ware Hertfordshire SG12 0ES
Approved on 13 March 2024
Council decision: Grant Plan Permission w Conds
Proposal
A County Council Application - to be determined by HCC - Application for construction and operation of solar farm and associated infrastructure
- Received
- 8 September 2023
- Ward
- Hertford Bengeo
- ReceivedReceived8 Sep
- ValidatedValidated8 Sep
- Consult.Consultation4 Oct
- TargetTarget Date29 Sep
- DecidedDecided13 Mar
Decided in 187 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Westmill Landfill Westmill Road Ware Hertfordshire SG12 0ES. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,009 applications of this type. This one was decided in 187 days, 18 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 135 applications across Hertford Bengeo. We hold 1,482 applications in total for the SG12 postcode area.
79% of outline 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
- SG12 0ES
- Application type
- Consultation with County Planning
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hertford Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 September 2023
- Last date for comments
- 4 October 2023
- Target decision date
- 29 September 2023
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Hertfordshire County Council CHN216 Pegs Lane Hertford SG13 8DN
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Hannah Weston
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: East Hertfordshire
- 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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
Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
© 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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