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Council Offices Gernon Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3JF

25/02359/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 27 November 2025

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of flue to back up generator situated in car park of Council Offices to run up the side of adjoining multi storey car park

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Letchworth South West Ward
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.15 Nov
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Council Offices Gernon Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3JF. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area. There have been 4 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 3JF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Letchworth Garden City

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Consultation expiry
22 November 2025
Consultation end
15 November 2025
Last date for comments
22 November 2025
Target decision date
9 December 2025
Decision issued
1 December 2025
Permission expires
1 December 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
22 November 2025
Site notice end
22 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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 (21)

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, 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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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    14 Oct

    Installation of flue to back up generator situated in car park of Council Offices to run up the side of…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/02359/FP
  2. 2025
    8 Oct

    Removal of ground floor window and insertion of Fire Exit door. Removal of existing 2nd floor window and…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside25/02372/FP

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