Pirton Court 1 Priors Hill Pirton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3QA
Approved on 16 June 2025
Council decision: Unconditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of first floor of existing outbuilding to a studio holiday let/annexe and enlargement of three dormer windows (Development and change of use already carried out).
- Received
- 17 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Offa Ward
- ReceivedReceived17 Apr
- ValidatedValidated17 Apr
- Consult.Consultation29 May
- TargetTarget Date27 Jun
- DecidedDecided16 Jun
Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a dormer extension at Pirton Court 1 Priors Hill Pirton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3QA. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Pirton conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Offa Ward. We hold 1,992 applications in total for the SG5 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
- SG5 3QA
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Pirton Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 June 2025
- Last date for comments
- 7 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 June 2025
- Decision issued
- 17 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 17 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Mr Mark Scott
- Agent address
- Bancroft House 34 Bancroft Hitchin SG5 1LA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 71 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 June 2025
- Site notice end
- 5 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13955149
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: PirtonPart of the site
- National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
- 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, 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.
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Source: North Hertfordshire
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