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4 Chambers Gate Stevenage Herts SG1 3XE

23/00398/CLPDCert. of Lawful PROPOSED developmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 July 2023

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) for part conversion of garage into habitable space and creation of wider opening to rear elevation in order to install Bi-Fold doors

Received
23 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Old Town
  1. Received23 May
  2. Validated23 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Jul
  5. Decided6 Jul

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 4 Chambers Gate Stevenage Herts SG1 3XE. Stevenage has handled 301 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker 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.

85% of outline 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 3XE
Application type
Cert. of Lawful PROPOSED development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 May 2023
Target decision date
18 July 2023
Decision issued
7 July 2023
Permission expires
7 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Houghton Architecture Ltd Suite 83 Enterprise House 86 Bancroft Hitchin Herts SG5 1NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

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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