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Jade House Common Lane Letchmore Heath Watford Hertfordshire WD25 8EQ

26/0245/HSEApproved

Approved on 12 August 2026

Council decision: Grant Permission

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

Proposal

Conversion of existing garage into art workshop, with alterations to fenestration to include replacement of existing garage doors with windows, and erection of a detached double garage.

Received
24 February 2026
Ward
Aldenham West
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Aug

Decided in 159 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a garage at Jade House Common Lane Letchmore Heath Watford Hertfordshire WD25 8EQ. Hertsmere has handled 7,157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 159 days, 15 weeks longer than Hertsmere's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchmore Heath conservation area, with 3 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 499 applications in total for the WD25 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WD25 8EQ
Parish
Aldenham Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
ALTARAS ARCHITECTURE LIMITED

Planning decision

Case officer
Vanessa Morrison

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Letchmore Heath
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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.

© 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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