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Highwood Hitchwood Lane Preston Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7RY

25/02881/DOCDetails of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 March 2026

Council decision: Approval of Details

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Details reserved by condition 3 (Barn Owl Box) of planning permission reference 24/02882/FP granted 23.07.2025.

Received
11 November 2025
Public comments
1
Ward
Hitchwood Ward
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target6 Jan
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 118 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Highwood Hitchwood Lane Preston Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7RY. North Hertfordshire has handled 728 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 10 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Hitchwood Ward. We hold 2,228 applications in total for the SG4 postcode area.

98% of conditions 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
SG4 7RY
Application type
Details of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Langley Parish Meeting

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2025
Consultation expiry
12 December 2025
Consultation end
12 December 2025
Last date for comments
12 December 2025
Target decision date
6 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ms Clare Butterworth
Agent address
Clague Architects 2 Kinsbourne Court 96-100 Luton Road Harpenden AL5 3BL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14479818
Documents
3

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, conservation areas, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    11 Nov

    Details reserved by condition 3 (Barn Owl Box) of planning permission reference 24/02882/FP

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions25/02881/DOC
  2. 2025
    11 Nov

    Details reserved by condition 5 (Construction Method Statement) of planning permission reference 24/02882/FP

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside25/02955/DOC

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