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Indoor Market Market Square Stevenage Herts

25/00194/FPApp. for Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 23 July 2025

Council decision: Grant Planning PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Indoor Market, Use Class E(a) to Education Facilities for North Herts College, Engineering and Construction Campus, Use Class F1(a), with associated internal alterations and minor alterations to the building facade

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
6
Ward
Bedwell
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.1 Jul
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 128 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Indoor Market Market Square Stevenage Herts. Stevenage has handled 865 applications of this type. This one was decided in 128 days, 11 weeks longer than Stevenage's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Bedwell.

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

Application type
App. for Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
To Follow

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Consultation expiry
14 July 2025
Consultation start
10 June 2025
Consultation end
1 July 2025
Neighbour consultation start
14 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
14 July 2025
Last date for comments
14 July 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2025
Committee meeting
21 July 2025
Permission expires
23 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Saunders Partnership Limited 1 Falcon Gate Shire Park Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL7 1TW

Planning decision

Case officer
Linda Sparrow
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
27 March 2025
Advertisement expiry
17 April 2025
Site notice start
19 March 2025
Site notice end
9 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13837154
Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Town Square Conservation AreaPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Clock Tower and Surrounding Raised PoolOn this site · +3 more
  • Article 4 direction: Stevenage
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Town SquarePart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: MatalanRegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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 and heritage coasts.

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

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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.

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
    28 May

    Discharge of condition 4 (Travel Plan) attached to planning permission reference number 25/00194/FP

    Discharge Planning ConditionsDischarge of conditions26/00418/COND
  2. 2025
    17 Mar

    Change of use from Indoor Market, Use Class E(a) to Education Facilities for North Herts College, Engineering…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/00194/FP

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