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Margaret House Residential Home Parsonage Close Abbots Langley Hertfordshire WD5 0BQ

23/1352/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 27 August 2024

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing care home building and redevelopment of site to provide 27no. residential units, with associated access, parking and landscaping works

Received
11 August 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
16
Ward
Abbots Langley And Bedmond
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated23 Aug
  3. Consult.18 Sep
  4. Target22 Nov
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 370 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Margaret House Residential Home Parsonage Close Abbots Langley Hertfordshire WD5 0BQ. Three Rivers has handled 1,362 applications of this type. This one was decided in 382 days, 47 weeks longer than Three Rivers's typical decision time. The site is in the Alphington conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Abbots Langley And Bedmond. We hold 130 applications in total for the WD5 postcode area.

88% of full applications at Three Rivers District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WD5 0BQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
27
Parish
Abbots Langley Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 August 2023
Consultation expiry
18 September 2024
Consultation end
18 September 2024
Neighbour consultation end
23 April 2024
Target decision date
22 November 2023
Committee meeting
23 May 2024
Decision issued
28 August 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Vincent And Gorbing Sterling Court Norton Road Stevenage SG1 2JY

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 September 2023
Advertisement expiry
29 September 2023
Site notice start
8 September 2023
Site notice end
29 September 2023

Appeal history

3331532
Allowed
Type: Householder (HAS)Procedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 30 November 2023Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12359680
Documents
105
Constraints
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, 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

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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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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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