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Europa House 5 Bartley Wood Business Park Bartley Way Hook Hampshire RG27 9UF

16/03054/PRIORPrior Approval ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 December 2016

Council decision: Prior Approval GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (as amended) of Proposed Change of use from office under Class B1(a) to dwellings under Class C3 for 77 dwellings.

Received
11 November 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hook
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.23 Dec
  4. Target6 Jan
  5. Decided30 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Europa House 5 Bartley Wood Business Park Bartley Way Hook Hampshire RG27 9UF. Hart has handled 298 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Hart's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Hook. We hold 2,205 applications in total for the RG27 postcode area.

96% of outline applications at Hart District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RG27 9UF
Application type
Prior Approval Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
77
Parish
Hook

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2016
Consultation expiry
23 December 2016
Consultation end
23 December 2016
Target decision date
6 January 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
DPA (London) Ltd 25 Tudor Hall Brewery Road Hoddesdon EN11 8FP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Europa House, 5 Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, HookRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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.

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