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Friends Green Farm Friends Green Damask Green Road Weston Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7BU

24/01434/S73Section 73 ApplicationRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 20 December 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Removal of condition 2 of planning permission 23/01259/FP granted 25.03.2024 for Use of buildings as (Sui Generis) car sales and (Use Class B2 general industrial) car servicing (as amended by details submitted 18th September 2024 and 26th November 2024).

Received
1 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Weston And Sandon Ward
Agent
DLA Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received1 Jul
  2. Validated1 Jul
  3. Consult.19 Dec
  4. Target21 Dec
  5. Decided20 Dec

Decided in 172 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Friends Green Farm Friends Green Damask Green Road Weston Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7BU. North Hertfordshire has handled 274 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 18 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Weston And Sandon Ward. We hold 2,228 applications in total for the SG4 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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 7BU
Application type
Section 73 Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Weston Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 July 2024
Consultation expiry
19 December 2024
Consultation end
19 December 2024
Neighbour consultation end
3 August 2024
Last date for comments
19 December 2024
Target decision date
21 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
DLA Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
5 The Gavel Centre Porters Wood St Albans AL3 6PQ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
173 days

Publicity

Site notice end
3 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13196502
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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