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Oak Cottage Hare Street Hertfordshire SG9 0EA

3/26/0133/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: Grant Plan Permission w CondsDelegated (officer decision)13 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use, with minor alterations, from use as a domestic outbuilding (Pool House) to use as an independent dwelling (Use Class C3) together with retention of existing parking area and domestic garden and installation of Air Source Heatpump

Received
2 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Buntingford
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target30 Mar
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 79 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Oak Cottage Hare Street Hertfordshire SG9 0EA. East Hertfordshire has handled 7,264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 2 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 148 applications across Buntingford. We hold 1,660 applications in total for the SG9 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
SG9 0EA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hormead Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Consultation expiry
12 March 2026
Last date for comments
7 April 2026
Target decision date
30 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
121 Queen's Road Hertford SG13 8BJ

Planning decision

Case officer
Daniel Clark
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
12 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14666327
Documents
21
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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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