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Hitchin Girls School Highbury Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9RS

25/00301/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 17 April 2025

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use of existing caretaker's cottage from residential (Use Class C3) to educational (Use Class F1).

Received
31 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hitchin Highbury Ward
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated31 Jan
  3. Consult.22 Mar
  4. Target18 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 76 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Hitchin Girls School Highbury Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9RS. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 4 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Hitchin conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 93 applications across Hitchin Highbury Ward. 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 9RS
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hitchin

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 January 2025
Consultation expiry
22 March 2025
Last date for comments
22 March 2025
Target decision date
18 April 2025
Permission expires
17 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr David Carmichael
Agent address
Suite 5, Middle Court Copley Hill Business Park, Babraham Cambridge Cambs CB22 3GN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
77 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
22 March 2025
Site notice end
20 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13726514
Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Hitchin
  • 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.

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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