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Priory Farm Barns Widford Hertfordshire SG12 8FA

3/25/0461/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 30 October 2025

Council decision: Grant Consent w Conds (LBC & ADV)Delegated (officer decision)21 conditions

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

Proposal

Conversion and partial re-building of agricultural buildings into two residential dwellings; alterations to fenestration and openings; landscaping and car-parking.

Received
14 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Ware Rural
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated27 Mar
  3. Consult.26 Aug
  4. Target22 May
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 217 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Priory Farm Barns Widford Hertfordshire SG12 8FA. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,410 applications of this type. This one was decided in 230 days, 24 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Widford conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,482 applications in total for the SG12 postcode area.

84% of heritage 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
SG12 8FA
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Widford Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 March 2025
Consultation expiry
23 May 2025
Last date for comments
26 August 2025
Target decision date
22 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Gatehouse Hadham Hall Little Hadham Ware SG11 2EB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
23 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13852395
Documents
33
Constraints
12

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: Widford
  • 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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