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74-76 South Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3AZ

3/25/0445/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 23 May 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 to of Citizens Advise Bureau (Class E) to nail and beauty salon (Sui generis)

Received
13 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Bishop's Stortford Central
  1. Received13 Mar
  2. Validated1 Apr
  3. Consult.13 May
  4. Target27 May
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 74-76 South Street Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 3AZ. East Hertfordshire has handled 7,264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 8 days longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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 3AZ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 April 2025
Consultation expiry
13 May 2025
Last date for comments
13 May 2025
Target decision date
27 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
13 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13851901
Documents
14
Constraints
11

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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