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Land Rear Of Grove House High Street Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 1BB

23/0949/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 3 November 2023

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)21 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing 2 x garage blocks and erection of 2 x blocks each consisting of 2 x 2 bed semi-detached 1.5 storey residential dwellings with associated car parking, bin store, cycle store, and landscaping (revised application from 17/1257/FUL).

Received
30 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bushey St James
Agent
Lawrence-Vacher LLP
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated12 Jul
  3. Consult.30 Aug
  4. Target6 Sep
  5. Decided3 Nov

Decided in 114 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Land Rear Of Grove House High Street Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 1BB. Hertsmere has handled 1,861 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 10 weeks longer than Hertsmere's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Bushey St James. We hold 1,929 applications in total for the WD23 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
WD23 1BB
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 July 2023
Consultation expiry
30 August 2023
Consultation start
7 November 2023
Consultation end
30 August 2023
Neighbour consultation start
17 July 2023
Neighbour consultation end
7 August 2023
Last date for comments
30 August 2023
Target decision date
6 September 2023
Permission expires
3 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lawrence-Vacher LLP
Agent address
Congress House 14 Lyon Road Harrow HA1 2EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 August 2023
Advertisement expiry
25 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12275339
Comments
0
Documents
33
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bushey High Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: 3, High StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 16 And Land Rear Of 14 To 18A Merry Hill Road, Bushey, WD23 1DYRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

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 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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© 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.

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