13 Eastcheap Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3DA
Approved on 23 July 2025
Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Removal of the existing shopfront and replacement with aluminium framed shopfront; polyester powder coated RAL 7016 Anthracite Grey. Toughened glazed shopfront, clear, internally beaded. No obscure film or coloured glass. Aluminium framed double doors; polyester powder coated RAL 7016 Anthracite Grey. Toughened glass, internally beaded. Clear opening width 1626mm.
- Received
- 10 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Letchworth South West Ward
- ReceivedReceived10 Jun
- ValidatedValidated10 Jun
- Consult.Consultation17 Jul
- TargetTarget Date5 Aug
- DecidedDecided23 Jul
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 13 Eastcheap Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3DA. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3DA
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Letchworth Garden City
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 19 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 19 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 5 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 23 July 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Mr Ben Younger
- Agent address
- 132-134 Hills Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8PA United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 19 July 2025
- Site notice end
- 17 July 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Letchworth
- 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 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.
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Source: North Hertfordshire
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