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Land On The South West Side Of Barkway Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 9DF

26/01784/NMAApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 5 August 2026

Council decision: Agreed

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

To add a sentence to a number of conditions to allow a minor start on site to implement the planning approval by adding the words: " ...other than the excavation and concreting of the foundations to the pair of garages serving plots 9 and 10 or demolition of the existing workshops in the vicinity of plots 1 and 2 on plan numbers HAN/BAR21/01E and HAN/BAR21/02A ...." to Condition numbers: 3 External Materials, 4 hard and soft landscaping, 8 Biodiversity Management Plan, 13, Foul water/ sewerage, 14 Construction traffic management plan (only a days work for a mini digger and one visit by a grab lorry and one by a cement mixer), 15 Construction management plan (as 14), 19 WSI - attached - is a watching brief possible on this small excavation, 22 No contamination has been found - reports deposited with original application. The site is located on chalk very close to the surface resulting in a shallow dig (as non-material amendment to planning permission reference 21/02957/FP granted on 22.05.2023).

Received
16 July 2026
Ward
Royston Meridian Ward
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Aug

Decided in 20 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Land On The South West Side Of Barkway Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 9DF. North Hertfordshire has handled 6,871 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 4 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Royston Meridian Ward. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SG8 9DF
Parish
Royston Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Henry Thomas

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
    27 Aug

    Removal of an existing workshop building on the site as implementation of planning permission 21/02957/FP

    ApprovedApplicationRelated26/02157/LDCE
  2. 2026
    23 Jul

    Removal of existing workshop buildings to implement planning consent 21/02957/FP

    PendingLawful Development Certificate ProposedFiled alongside26/01850/LDCP
  3. 2026
    16 Jul

    To add a sentence to a number of conditions to allow a minor start on site to implement the planning approval…

    This applicationApprovedNon-material amendment26/01784/NMA

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