Harpenden House Hotel 18 Southdown Road Harpenden Hertfordshire Al5 1Pe
Withdrawn on 2 February 2015
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Demolition of existing outbuildings and creation of 31 dwelling units comprising of refurbishment and conversion of existing listed building to create three, two bedrooms and two, three bedroom flats and new building comprising of four, four bedroom house
- Received
- 1 October 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Harpenden West
- ReceivedReceived1 Oct
- ValidatedValidated28 Oct
- Consult.Consultation3 Dec
- TargetTarget Date3 Dec
- DecidedDecided2 Feb
Decided in 97 days
About this application
This is a planning application for demolition at Harpenden House Hotel 18 Southdown Road Harpenden Hertfordshire Al5 1Pe. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 124 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Harpenden conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 197 applications across Harpenden West. We hold 3,774 applications in total for the AL5 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- AL5 1PE
- Application type
- Withdrawn
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 31
- Parish
- Harpenden Town
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 October 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 3 December 2014
- Consultation end
- 3 December 2014
- Target decision date
- 3 December 2014
- Application expires
- 27 January 2015
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 12 November 2014
Additional information
- Documents
- 137
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Harpenden
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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