Hobbits Danesbury Park Road Welwyn Hertfordshire AL6 9SS
Approved on 21 March 2022
Council decision: Prior Approval GivenDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Enlargement of detached dwelling by the construction of an additional storey over original dwelling, to result in an overall height of 8.52 metres.
- Received
- 25 January 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Knebworth Ward Historic
- ReceivedReceived25 Jan
- ValidatedValidated25 Jan
- Consult.Consultation3 Mar
- TargetTarget Date21 Mar
- DecidedDecided21 Mar
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Hobbits Danesbury Park Road Welwyn Hertfordshire AL6 9SS. North Hertfordshire has handled 456 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 969 applications in total for the AL6 postcode area.
86% of outline 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
- AL6 9SS
- Application type
- Prior Approval: Additional Storey/s
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Codicote Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 January 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 3 March 2022
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 March 2022
- Last date for comments
- 3 March 2022
- Target decision date
- 21 March 2022
- Decision issued
- 22 March 2022
- Permission expires
- 22 March 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Mr Simon Watkins
- Agent address
- Unit 25, Basepoint Crab Apple Way Evesham WR11 1GP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: North Hertfordshire
- 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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: North Hertfordshire
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