Fairswell 25 Vantorts Road Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9NA

3/25/0419/CLPOCL Proposed OperationsApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 9 April 2025

Council decision: CL Proposed GrantDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Convert existing garage into a habitable lounge with a window replacing the garage door

Received: 10 March 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: East Hertfordshire District Council
Ward: Sawbridgeworth

ReceivedReceived10 Mar
ValidatedValidated10 Mar
Consult.Consultation19 Mar
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided9 Apr

Decided in 30 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at Fairswell 25 Vantorts Road Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 9NA. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,009 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 5 weeks quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 14 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Sawbridgeworth. We hold 1,438 applications in total for the CM21 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: CM21 9NA
Application type: CL Proposed Operations
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Sawbridgeworth Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 10 March 2025
Last date for comments: 19 March 2025

Applicant and agent

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

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13834007
Comments: 0
Documents: 4
Constraints: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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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.

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

14 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: East Hertfordshire

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