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17 Castle Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3TG

3/24/1327/VARVariation of conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 March 2025

Council decision: Grant Plan Permission w CondsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) relating to planning permission: 3/23/1685/FUL (For: Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of new building containing 4no. flats). Amendments to include: reduction in width of building, increase in length/depth of building, increase in ridge height of building, altered design for porch, altered design for rooflights, addition of AOV (vent) with chimney and altered dimensions of rear dormer windows.

Received
16 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
11
Ward
Bishop's Stortford Central
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated22 Jul
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 246 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 17 Castle Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3TG. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,312 applications of this type. This one was decided in 252 days, 27 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Bishop's Stortford Central. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.

91% of conditions 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 3TG
Application type
Variation of condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 July 2024
Consultation expiry
30 August 2024
Last date for comments
1 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Westgate House 37-41 Castle Street Hertford SG14 1HH

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
30 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13248862
Documents
21
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bishop's Stortford
  • 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

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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