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Land At The South End Of Anglian Business Park Orchard Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5TW

25/03143/S73Section 73 ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)9 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of Condition 4 (Operational hours for staff, visitors, deliveries and machine operation) of planning application reference 23/00244/FP granted on 26/04/2023 for Temporary change of use of vacant industrial land for 5 years for use as an open storage yard (Use class B8) to include construction of vehicular access, layout of hard surfaced area, construction of security fencing and all ancillary works.

Received
22 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Royston Heath Ward
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated22 Dec
  3. Consult.14 Jan
  4. Target16 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land At The South End Of Anglian Business Park Orchard Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5TW. North Hertfordshire has handled 274 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Royston Heath Ward. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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 5TW
Application type
Section 73 Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Royston Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 December 2025
Consultation expiry
30 January 2026
Consultation end
14 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
21 January 2026
Last date for comments
30 January 2026
Target decision date
16 February 2026
Permission expires
12 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Miss Katia Clarke
Agent address
Magdalen House 148 Tooley Street London SE1 2TU United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
30 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14489500
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    10 Aug

    Details reserved by Condition 6 (Planting Plan and Schedule) of Section 73 application reference 25/03143/S73

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/01997/DOC
  2. 2025
    22 Dec

    Variation of Condition 4 (Operational hours for staff, visitors, deliveries and machine operation) of…

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)25/03143/S73

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