Blackbirds Farm Blackbirds Lane Aldenham Watford Hertfordshire WD25 8BS

24/1429/CLEApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 28 August 2026

Council decision: Grant Lawful Certificate (existing)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Mixed use for the operation of a heavy goods vehicle haulage business, including the parking of HGVs and semi-trailers, in addition to the use of the site for other lawful uses including as the operational hub for agricultural and equestrian activities and for non-agricultural business uses operating pursuant to the grant of various planning permissions for re-use of buildings within the application site Certificate of Lawful Development (Existing).

Received: 6 November 2024
Council: Hertsmere Borough Council
Ward: Aldenham West

ReceivedReceived6 Nov
ValidatedValidated6 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided28 Aug

Decided in 660 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Blackbirds Farm Blackbirds Lane Aldenham Watford Hertfordshire WD25 8BS. Hertsmere has handled 7,138 applications of this type. This one was decided in 660 days, 86 weeks longer than Hertsmere's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 152 applications across Aldenham West. We hold 496 applications in total for the WD25 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: WD25 8BS
Parish: Aldenham Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated: 6 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer: William Clarke

Additional information

Documents: 85

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

3 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Hertsmere

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