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Stone Hall Thorley Lane East Thorley Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 4BH

3/26/0736/CLEOApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 13 August 2026

Council decision: CL Existing Grant

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Existing Use or Development to confirm that the land has been used continuously as part of the residential curtilage and lawful planning unit associated with Stone Hall for a period in excess of ten years

Received
22 May 2026
Ward
Bishop's Stortford Thorley Manor
  1. Received22 May
  2. Validated22 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 83 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Stone Hall Thorley Lane East Thorley Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 4BH. East Hertfordshire has handled 13,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 3 weeks longer than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Bishop's Stortford Thorley Manor. We hold 3,123 applications in total for the CM23 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CM23 4BH
Parish
Bishops Stortford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Daniel Clark

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    22 May

    Certificate of Lawful Existing Use or Development to confirm that the land has been used continuously as part…

    This applicationApprovedApplication3/26/0736/CLEO
  2. 2026
    22 May

    Installation of a freestanding greenhouse

    ApprovedHouseholderFiled alongside3/26/0737/HH

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