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Therfield Water Tower Kelshall Tops Therfield Hertfordshire

25/02735/ECElectronic CommunicationsApproved

Approved on 20 November 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 1no. 600mm dish mounted on the existing steel support frame on the existing water tower. Proposed link equipment to be installed within the existing equipment cabin and all ancillary development thereto as illustrated on the enclosed plans.

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ermine Ward
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 Nov
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 27 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Therfield Water Tower Kelshall Tops Therfield Hertfordshire. North Hertfordshire has handled 6,871 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 3 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 136 applications across Ermine Ward.

Application details

Application type
Electronic Communications
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Therfield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Target decision date
21 November 2025
Decision issued
21 November 2025
Permission expires
21 November 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: TherfieldPart of the 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 (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

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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