Sir John Lawes School, Manland Way, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4QP
Proposal
3 classrooms and associated stores and WCs to replace existing mobiles; provision for a future 4th classroom extension; new wood store/preparation area; relocation of concrete storage unit; extension to existing Science block to provide new Science Laboratory
- Received
- 3 December 2008
- Decided
- 30 April 2009 · Conditionally Permitted
- Council
- Hertfordshire County Council
- ReceivedReceived3 Dec
- ValidatedValidated3 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided30 Apr
Decided in 148 days
This is a planning application for an extension at Sir John Lawes School, Manland Way, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4QP. Hertfordshire has handled 82 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 90 days. This one was decided in 148 days, 8 weeks longer than Hertfordshire's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,700 applications in total for the AL5 postcode area.
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Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
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