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109 High Street Barkway Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8ED

25/02543/FPHFull Permission HouseholderApproved
Householder

Approved on 17 December 2025

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of automated metal gates to existing entrance.

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Ermine Ward
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.20 Nov
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 109 High Street Barkway Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8ED. 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. The site is in the Barkway conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Ermine Ward. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 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
SG8 8ED
Application type
Full Permission Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barkway Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Consultation expiry
29 November 2025
Consultation end
20 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 November 2025
Last date for comments
29 November 2025
Target decision date
19 December 2025
Decision issued
18 December 2025
Permission expires
18 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Robert Kennedy
Agent address
203 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7FR United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
29 November 2025
Site notice end
27 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14341802
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Barkway
  • Listed building: Grade II: Townsend HouseOn this site
  • 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, 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

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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