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Owls Wood Cottage Newsells Village Road Barkway Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8DE

18/00001/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 29 March 2018

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Provision of detached double garage with space over and associated works to external landscape features as existing.

Received
2 January 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Ermine Ward
  1. Received2 Jan
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.2 Mar
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided29 Mar

Decided in 86 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Owls Wood Cottage Newsells Village Road Barkway Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8DE. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 138 applications across Ermine Ward. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 postcode area.

92% of full applications at North Hertfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SG8 8DE
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barkway Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2018
Consultation expiry
9 March 2018
Consultation end
2 March 2018
Neighbour consultation end
2 March 2018
Last date for comments
9 March 2018
Target decision date
27 February 2018
Decision issued
16 April 2018
Permission expires
16 April 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
RDA
Agent address
81 Rainsford Road Stansted Essex CM24 8DX CM

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
8 March 2018
Site notice end
9 March 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06633323
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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

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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: North Hertfordshire

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