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42 Bedford Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2TY

20/00043/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 May 2020

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use and conversion of existing store rooms to create one 1-bed dwelling (as amended by drawings received 20th May 2020).

Received
20 January 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hitchin Bearton Ward Historic
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.30 Apr
  4. Target25 May
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 121 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 42 Bedford Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2TY. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 10 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,992 applications in total for the SG5 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
SG5 2TY
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hitchin

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2020
Consultation expiry
30 April 2020
Neighbour consultation end
30 April 2020
Last date for comments
30 April 2020
Target decision date
25 May 2020
Permission expires
20 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Ian Lawrence
Agent address
17 Northfields Letchworth Garden City SG6 4RJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
126 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08388681
Documents
9

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: North Hertfordshire

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