Orchard Cottage Pipers End Hertford Hertfordshire SG14 2PB

3/25/0418/PNHHPrior Notification HouseholderRefused

Householder

Refused on 16 April 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Single storey rear extension: Depth 4.79 metres, Maximum height 3.15 metres, Eaves height 2.95 metres. (extension is identical to the shape of the existing house in terms of roof height, pitch, wall overhangs, roof and wall coverings and door and window appearance)

Received: 11 March 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 2
Council: East Hertfordshire District Council
Ward: Hertford Rural

ReceivedReceived11 Mar
ValidatedValidated11 Mar
Consult.Consultation4 Apr
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided16 Apr

Decided in 36 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at Orchard Cottage Pipers End Hertford Hertfordshire SG14 2PB. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,009 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 4 weeks quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There have been 9 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 116 applications across Hertford Rural. We hold 2,859 applications in total for the SG14 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: SG14 2PB
Application type: Prior Notification Householder
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hertingfordbury Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 March 2025
Last date for comments: 4 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13815538
Documents: 29
Constraints: 3

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Planning history at this site

9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: East Hertfordshire

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