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Rodells 1A St Johns Road Watford WD17 1PU

11/01035/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 December 2011

Council decision: Conditional Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of shop/cafe (Class A1/Class A3) to bar (Class A4) at ground floor level and use of first floor level as restaurant/cafe (Class A3).

Received
19 October 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Central
  1. Received19 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Dec
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided14 Dec

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Rodells 1A St Johns Road Watford WD17 1PU. Watford has handled 593 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Watford's typical decision time. The site is in the Estcourt conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Central. We hold 1,594 applications in total for the WD17 postcode area.

86% of amendment applications at Watford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WD17 1PU
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2011
Consultation expiry
6 December 2011
Neighbour consultation start
22 November 2011
Neighbour consultation end
6 December 2011
Last date for comments
6 December 2011
Target decision date
19 December 2011
Decision issued
15 December 2011
Application expires
19 December 2011
Permission expires
15 December 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 November 2011
Advertisement expiry
25 November 2011

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal Allowed
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Additional information

Documents
84
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Estcourt
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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