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Field End Westfield Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 2RE

3/25/1329/HHHouseholderApproved

Approved on 7 October 2025

Council decision: Grant Plan Permission w CondsDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of chimney. Construction of two storey side and single storey side extensions. Alterations to wall and fenestration.

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Bishop's Stortford North
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated13 Aug
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target8 Oct
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Field End Westfield Road Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 2RE. East Hertfordshire has handled 7,264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 8 days quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop's Stortford conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 2RE
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 August 2025
Consultation expiry
2 October 2025
Last date for comments
2 October 2025
Target decision date
8 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
12 Cooper Smith Road Takeley Bishop's Stortford CM22 6FS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
2 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14209364
Documents
15
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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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