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Agricultural Barn And Roadside Gault Brick Barn Ashwell Road Newnham Hertfordshire SG7 5JX

26/01942/FPApproved

Approved on 1 October 2026

Council decision: Conditional Permission13 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of parts of two existing agricultural barns to form a workshop-based vocational learning and tuition centre (Use Class F1) including external alterations to the gault brick barn including the installation of exterior cladding, brick plinth and proposed window and door and to facilitate the change of use.

Received
3 August 2026
Public comments
1 · last counted 18 October 2026
Ward
Arbury Ward
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated3 Aug
  3. Consult.17 Sep
  4. Target9 Oct
  5. Decided1 Oct

Decided in 59 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Agricultural Barn And Roadside Gault Brick Barn Ashwell Road Newnham Hertfordshire SG7 5JX. North Hertfordshire has handled 6,871 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Newnham conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across Arbury Ward. We hold 486 applications in total for the SG7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SG7 5JX
Parish
Caldecote And Newnham Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 August 2026
Consultation end
17 September 2026
Target decision date
9 October 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Melissa Tyler

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Newnham
  • 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.

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.

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  2. 2026
    3 Aug

    Change of use of parts of two existing agricultural barns to form a workshop-based vocational learning and…

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