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9 - 10 High Street Hitchin Hertfordshire

24/01426/FPFull Planning PermissionWithdrawn
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Withdrawn on 11 March 2025

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Proposal

Demolition and redevelopment to provide 44 residential apartments (in four part 4 storey / part 5 storey linked blocks) 325 sqms of Class E floorspace at ground floor fronting the High Street, landscaping, amenity and associated parking.

Received
10 July 2024
Public comments
34
Ward
Hitchin Priory Ward
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target14 Feb
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 244 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 9 - 10 High Street Hitchin Hertfordshire. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 244 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Hitchin conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Hitchin Priory Ward.

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

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
44
Parish
Hitchin

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2024
Consultation expiry
5 December 2024
Consultation end
5 December 2024
Neighbour consultation end
30 August 2024
Last date for comments
5 December 2024
Target decision date
14 February 2025
Permission expires
11 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ms Mary Power
Agent address
The Stanley Building 7 Pancras Square London N1C 4AG United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
219 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
17 August 2024
Site notice end
15 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13187295
Documents
89

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Hitchin
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Cock InnOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Block B, Latchmore Court, HitchinRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

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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