Land Adjacent To Gelders Conduit Lane Great Hormead Hertfordshire SG9 0NU
Refused on 21 October 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and Refused1 reason for refusal
Proposal
Prior approval application (Part 3, Class Q) for change of use and conversion of agricultural barn (piggery building) to create two dwellings
- Received
- 2 September 2026
- Public comments
- 0 · last counted 27 October 2026
- Ward
- Buntingford
- ReceivedReceived2 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided21 Oct
Decided in 49 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at Land Adjacent To Gelders Conduit Lane Great Hormead Hertfordshire SG9 0NU. East Hertfordshire has handled 13,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 2 weeks quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Hormead conservation area, with 1 listed building 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.
Why it was refused
- It is considered the proposal would fall outside the scope of Class Q, Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), as the application site, as outlined in red, would include land that does not form the curtilage of the application building, by reason of the presence of a sizeable portable pool as well as play equipment on that area of land. That area of land appears to be in domestic residential use and not serving the purposes of the application building. As such, it is considered that area of the land would fail to accord with Q3. (1)(a).
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- SG9 0NU
- Parish
- Hormead Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 September 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Howard Cheng
Additional information
- Documents
- 18
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Great Hormead
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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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