Land at the Briggens Estate, near Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire
Proposal
EIA Scoping Opinion request for a new sand and gravel quarry together with establishment and use of ancillary facilities including new site access off Royden Road; haul roads to the plant site and extraction areas; establishment and use of plant site complete with processing plant, water management and stocking grounds, with restoration using indigenous and imported materials to agricultural land and nature conservation habitat
- Received
- 3 September 2026
- Council
- Hertfordshire County Council
- ReceivedSubmitted3 Sep
- ValidatedValidated3 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided
This is a planning application at Land at the Briggens Estate, near Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire has handled 81 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 90 days. It was submitted on 3 September 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.
Application Details
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Additional Information
Source: Hertfordshire
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: East Hertfordshire
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
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