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36 Fore Street Hertford Hertfordshire SG14 1BS

3/23/1806/COMPNCommercial Class E to DwelinghousesApproved

Approved on 14 November 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Req/Grant with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of part of the ground floor and the full first and second floors from a bank (which has closed) to use class C3 for 3 residential dwellings (whilst partially retaining a ground floor shop), creating two 1 bedroom flats over the ground (rear) and first floors, and one 2 bedroom flat over the first and second floors.

Received
25 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Hertford Castle
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated26 Sep
  3. Consult.14 Nov
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided14 Nov

Decided in 49 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 36 Fore Street Hertford Hertfordshire SG14 1BS. East Hertfordshire has handled 13,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 13 days quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Hertford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Hertford Castle. We hold 2,859 applications in total for the SG14 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SG14 1BS
Application type
Commercial Class E to Dwelinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hertford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 September 2023
Consultation expiry
26 October 2023
Last date for comments
14 November 2023
Target decision date
14 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Feathers Kiln Road Prestwood Bucks HP16 9DG

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
26 October 2023

Additional information

Documents
14
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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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