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Land Adjacent To Breachwood Green Industrial Park Pasture Lane Breachwood Green Hitchin SG4 8NY

25/00975/FPFull Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 18 June 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Creation of car park with 28 spaces to serve the adjacent industrial area (development already carried out).

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Hitchwood Ward
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.22 May
  4. Target20 Jun
  5. Decided18 Jun

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land Adjacent To Breachwood Green Industrial Park Pasture Lane Breachwood Green Hitchin SG4 8NY. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Hitchwood 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 8NY
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kings Walden Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2025
Consultation expiry
29 May 2025
Consultation end
22 May 2025
Last date for comments
29 May 2025
Target decision date
20 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Barry Cunningham
Agent address
140 Weston Road Aston Clinton Aylesbury HP22 5EP United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
29 May 2025

Appeal history

3368416
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 23 September 2025Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: Refusal
Green Belt

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13931224
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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