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42A North Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 2LR

3/24/2338/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 28 February 2025

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

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of part of the ground floor and part of first floor from (Shop) Class E to (Residential) C3, to facilitate the creation of 2 additional studio flats. New windows and alterations to fenestration. Creation of refuse store and installation of cycle racks and WC to existing shop.

Received
27 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Bishop's Stortford North
  1. Received27 Dec
  2. Validated3 Jan
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 42A North Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 2LR. East Hertfordshire has handled 7,264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 141 applications across Bishop's Stortford North. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.

80% of full 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 2LR
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 January 2025
Consultation expiry
6 February 2025
Last date for comments
6 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
47 Haymeads Lane Bishop's Stortford CM23 5JJ

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
6 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13660187
Documents
25
Constraints
10

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
  • Brownfield land register: First and Second Floors, 42 North Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2LRRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    11 Nov

    A non-material amendment to 3/21/1845/FUL

    RefusedNon-material amendment3/24/2059/NMA

Source: East Hertfordshire

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