16 Leys Avenue Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3EU
Approved on 9 July 2024
Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of Use of first floor from office to residential to create two 1-bed flats including external alterations.
- Received
- 14 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Ward
- Letchworth South West Ward
- ReceivedReceived14 May
- ValidatedValidated14 May
- Consult.Consultation7 Jun
- TargetTarget Date9 Jul
- DecidedDecided9 Jul
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 16 Leys Avenue Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3EU. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Letchworth South West Ward. We hold 910 applications in total for the SG6 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
- SG6 3EU
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Letchworth Garden City
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 May 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 15 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 7 June 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 June 2024
- Last date for comments
- 15 June 2024
- Target decision date
- 9 July 2024
- Permission expires
- 9 July 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Mr Jonathan Read
- Agent address
- Suite 1 21 Bancroft Hitchin SG5 1JW United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 June 2024
- Site notice end
- 14 June 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12943649
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Letchworth
- 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, 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.
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Associated applications
- 202610 Jul
Details Reserved by Condition 5: (Construction Management Plan) of planning permission 24/01008/FP
ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/01739/DOC - 202414 May
Change of Use of first floor from office to residential to create two 1-bed flats including external…
This applicationApprovedFull24/01008/FP
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: North Hertfordshire
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