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The Green Man 5 High Street Offley Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3AR

26/00681/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 26 May 2026

Council decision: Conditional Consent1 condition

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 2x sign written house name letters, 1x car park sign, 1x small directional sign and 1x information panel.

Received
16 March 2026
Ward
Offa Ward
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated16 Mar
  3. Consult.19 Apr
  4. Target11 May
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 71 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Green Man 5 High Street Offley Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3AR. North Hertfordshire has handled 345 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 3 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Offley conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications 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.

93% of heritage 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 3AR
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Offley Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 March 2026
Consultation expiry
26 April 2026
Consultation end
19 April 2026
Last date for comments
26 April 2026
Target decision date
11 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Mrs Gillian Shepley
Agent address
Ashleigh House Beckbridge Road Normanton WF6 1TE

Planning decision

Case officer
Tabitha Kaye
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
25 April 2026
Site notice end
26 April 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14775744
Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Great Offley
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Green Man Public HouseOn this site · +1 more
  • Green belt: North HertfordshireNext to 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 (19)

flood storage 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.

Source: North Hertfordshire

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