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25 Leys Avenue Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3EP

25/00966/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 7 July 2025

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of air conditioning system including external condenser units, enclosure to rear of building and bollards. Installation of ATM machine, single sliding doorset (as amended by plans and supporting documents received 20th June 2025 and 30th June 2025).

Received
29 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Letchworth South West Ward
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.23 May
  4. Target18 Jul
  5. Decided7 Jul

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 25 Leys Avenue Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3EP. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area. There have been 2 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 3EP
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Letchworth Garden City

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2025
Consultation expiry
31 May 2025
Consultation end
23 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
30 May 2025
Last date for comments
31 May 2025
Target decision date
18 July 2025
Permission expires
7 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Steve Simmonds
Agent address
Hamilton House 6 Nantillo Street DORCHESTER DT1 3WN

Planning decision

Statutory period
80 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
31 May 2025
Site notice end
30 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13916683
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Letchworth
  • Brownfield land register: Garden Square Shopping Centre, Leys Avenue, LetchworthRegister 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 (20)

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 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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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    29 Apr

    Installation of air conditioning system including external condenser units, enclosure to rear of building and…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/00966/FP
  2. 2025
    29 Apr

    Installation of No. 2 fascia sign and logo, No.1 ATM surround and No.1 projecting sign.

    Conditional ConsentAdvertisement consentFiled alongside25/00967/AD

Source: North Hertfordshire

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