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The Loft Hill End Farm Langley Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7PT

20/00197/FPFull Planning PermissionRefused
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Refused on 16 April 2020

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retention of recladding of walls/roof of existing building including reprofiling of roof from shallow pitched ridged roof to monopitch.

Received
28 January 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hitchwood Offa And Hoo Historic
  1. Received28 Jan
  2. Validated28 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 79 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Loft Hill End Farm Langley Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7PT. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 4 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,228 applications in total for the SG4 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
SG4 7PT
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Langley Parish Meeting

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 January 2020
Consultation expiry
7 March 2020
Consultation end
27 February 2020
Last date for comments
7 March 2020
Target decision date
17 April 2020
Decision issued
17 April 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Steven Barker
Agent address
33 Bancroft Hitchin SG5 1LA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
80 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
7 March 2020
Site notice end
5 March 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08323924
Documents
10

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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© 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.

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