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Land At The South End Of Anglian Business Park Orchard Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5TW

25/00391/S73Section 73 ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 March 2025

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of Condition Number(s): 2 To confirm approval to a minor (35 cm) increase in the ground level of the approved hard surfaced external open storage yard on the south side of Anglian Business Park. To substitute the approved Site Layout Drawing 2613 PL102A and approved Site Section Drawing 2613 PL103A with amended drawings comprising Site Layout Drawing 2613 PL102B and Site Section Drawing 2613 PL103B showing the minor increase in site levels of planning permission 23/00244/FP granted on 26.04.2023 for: Temporary change of use of vacant industrial land for 5 years for use as an open storage yard (Use class B8) to include construction of vehicular access, layout of hard surfaced area, construction of security fencing and all ancillary works.

Received
11 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Royston Heath Ward
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.15 Mar
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land At The South End Of Anglian Business Park Orchard Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5TW. North Hertfordshire has handled 274 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Royston Heath Ward. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 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
SG8 5TW
Application type
Section 73 Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Royston Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2025
Consultation expiry
22 March 2025
Consultation end
15 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
22 March 2025
Last date for comments
22 March 2025
Target decision date
8 April 2025
Decision issued
1 April 2025
Permission expires
1 April 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Weldon Beesly
Agent address
The Old Dairy Barn Offley Hoo, Hoo Lane Offley Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3ED United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
22 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13757075
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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