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19 Walnut Tree Road Pirton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3PX

26/00116/FPFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 7 October 2026

Council decision: Conditional Permission21 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of four detached dwellings and detached garage to serve plot 4 including hard and soft landscaping, parking and creation of vehicular access.

Received
30 January 2026
Public comments
2 · last counted 18 October 2026
Ward
Offa Ward
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.6 May
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 250 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 19 Walnut Tree Road Pirton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3PX. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 250 days, 29 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Pirton conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Offa Ward. We hold 1,992 applications in total for the SG5 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
SG5 3PX
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Pirton Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2026
Consultation expiry
6 May 2026
Consultation end
6 May 2026
Neighbour consultation end
4 March 2026
Last date for comments
6 May 2026
Target decision date
10 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Mr Jonathan Read
Architect profile
PENTANGLE DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
suite 1 21 Bancroft Hitchin SG5 1JW United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Thomas Howe
Statutory period
70 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
7 March 2026
Site notice end
4 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14555776
Documents
42

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: PirtonPart 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.

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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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    22 Oct

    T1, T2: Leylandi - Fell.

    PendingApplication26/02717/TCA

Source: North Hertfordshire

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