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Winters Garage Murco Service Station St Albans Road South Mimms Hertfordshire EN6 3PN

15/1688/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 30 November 2015

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from petrol station to hand car wash valeting service to include retention of grocery shop and car workshop on site.

Received
23 September 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Shenley
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated5 Oct
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target30 Nov
  5. Decided30 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Winters Garage Murco Service Station St Albans Road South Mimms Hertfordshire EN6 3PN. Hertsmere has handled 1,861 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Hertsmere's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 124 applications across Shenley. We hold 3,353 applications in total for the EN6 postcode area.

90% of full applications at Hertsmere Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EN6 3PN
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Mimms Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 October 2015
Consultation expiry
22 December 2015
Consultation start
1 December 2015
Consultation end
22 December 2015
Neighbour consultation start
1 December 2015
Neighbour consultation end
28 October 2015
Last date for comments
22 December 2015
Target decision date
30 November 2015
Permission expires
30 November 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29/2 Crescent Road Crouch End London N8 8AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 October 2015
Advertisement expiry
12 November 2015

Additional information

Documents
11
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Hertsmere
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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

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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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Source: Hertsmere

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