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9 Ground Floor Office Walkern Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3QD

26/00130/CPACommercial Prior App. Office to Resi.Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 18 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Prior approval for the change of use of office building (Use Class E) to 3no. Residential Dwellings (Use Class C3).

Received
30 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Old Town
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.23 Mar
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 9 Ground Floor Office Walkern Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3QD. Stevenage has handled 301 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days. The site is in the Old Town High Street conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Old Town. We hold 993 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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Why it was refused

  1. The application has been submitted with insufficient information to allow the Local Planning Authority and statutory consultees the ability to make a full assessment of the impact of noise from commercial and other non-residential uses in close proximity of the site and the resultant impact on the proposed residential use of the existing office building in accordance with the condition in Paragraph MA.2(2)(d) of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 (as amended).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
SG1 3QD
Application type
Commercial Prior App. Office to Resi.
Scale / size
Small
Parish
To Follow

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Consultation expiry
23 March 2026
Consultation start
2 March 2026
Consultation end
23 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
3 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
24 February 2026
Last date for comments
23 March 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
19 Eastbourne Terrace London W2 6LA

Planning decision

Case officer
Aliya Muskaan Khalil
Statutory period
45 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 February 2026
Site notice end
3 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14616894
Documents
41
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Old Town High Street Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Two Diamonds Public HouseOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Stevenage
  • Brownfield land register: Pond Close, 11 Walkern RoadRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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 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

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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