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27 - 29 Whitehorse Street Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 6QF

25/01333/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 22 July 2025

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of former first floor office into residential, including internal alterations to form first floor residential unit and to facilitate relocation of retail ancillary space to ground floor. Demolition of external stair enclosure and reinstate external wall on original alignment. Replacement windows. New external doors.

Received
19 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Baldock West Ward
  1. Received19 May
  2. Validated19 May
  3. Consult.21 Jun
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided22 Jul

Decided in 64 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 27 - 29 Whitehorse Street Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 6QF. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Baldock conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Baldock West Ward. We hold 486 applications in total for the SG7 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
SG7 6QF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Baldock

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 May 2025
Consultation expiry
28 June 2025
Consultation end
21 June 2025
Neighbour consultation end
28 June 2025
Last date for comments
28 June 2025
Target decision date
25 July 2025
Decision issued
23 July 2025
Permission expires
23 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Ryan Albone
Agent address
7 Paynes Park Hitchin SG51EH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
67 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
28 June 2025
Site notice end
28 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14015888
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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

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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.

Source: North Hertfordshire

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