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45 Four Acres Stevenage Herts SG1 3PL

19/00279/FPApp. for Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 24 July 2019

Council decision: Grant Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from public amenity land to residential use

Received
7 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Old Town
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated29 May
  3. Consult.19 Jun
  4. Target24 Jul
  5. Decided24 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 45 Four Acres Stevenage Herts SG1 3PL. Stevenage has handled 865 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 4 weeks longer than Stevenage's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Old Town. We hold 991 applications in total for the SG1 postcode area.

92% of full applications at Stevenage Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SG1 3PL
Application type
App. for Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 May 2019
Consultation expiry
4 July 2019
Consultation start
29 May 2019
Consultation end
19 June 2019
Neighbour consultation start
29 May 2019
Neighbour consultation end
19 June 2019
Last date for comments
4 July 2019
Target decision date
24 July 2019
Permission expires
24 July 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 June 2019
Site notice end
4 July 2019

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Stevenage
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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.

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