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8 - 9 Station Close Potters Bar Hertfordshire EN6 1TL

25/0766/FULFull Planning PermissionRefused
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Refused on 1 October 2025

Council decision: Refuse PermissionPlanning committee1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from existing warehouse (Use Class B8) to provision of medical or health services (Use Class E(e)) and erection of cycle store.

Received
16 May 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
4
Ward
Potters Bar Parkfield
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.18 Jul
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided1 Oct

Decided in 138 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 8 - 9 Station Close Potters Bar Hertfordshire EN6 1TL. Hertsmere has handled 1,861 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 12 weeks longer than Hertsmere's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 107 applications across Potters Bar Parkfield. 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development would result in the provision of an inappropriate use within a designated employment area and would undermine and be harmful to the function of the designated employment area. No employment land need assessment or similar has been submitted to justify the proposal. The development would thereby be contrary to Policies CS8 and CS10 of the Hertsmere Core Strategy 2013 and Policies SADM5 of the Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Plan 2016.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
EN6 1TL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2025
Consultation expiry
18 July 2025
Consultation start
3 October 2025
Consultation end
18 July 2025
Neighbour consultation start
3 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
12 June 2025
Last date for comments
18 July 2025
Target decision date
2 October 2025
Committee meeting
30 September 2025
Decision issued
2 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
D'Abernon Station Road Gilling East York YO62 4JL

Planning decision

Statutory period
139 days

Publicity

Last advertised
28 May 2025
Advertisement expiry
18 June 2025
Site notice start
22 May 2025
Site notice end
13 June 2025

Appeal history

6004305
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 17 June 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13284049
Documents
22
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, 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.

© 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.

Source: Hertsmere

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