Unit 5 Faircross House 116 The Parade High Street Watford WD17 1BD
Approved on 27 March 2012
Council decision: Conditional Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of ground floor from retail (Class A1) to restaurant (Class A3).
- Received
- 7 February 2012
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Watford Borough Council
- Ward
- Central
- ReceivedReceived7 Feb
- ValidatedValidated10 Feb
- Consult.Consultation29 Mar
- TargetTarget Date6 Apr
- DecidedDecided27 Mar
Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 5 Faircross House 116 The Parade High Street Watford WD17 1BD. Watford has handled 593 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in the Civic Core conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Central. We hold 1,591 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 1BD
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 February 2012
- Consultation expiry
- 29 March 2012
- Consultation end
- 29 March 2012
- Neighbour consultation start
- 13 February 2012
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 March 2012
- Last date for comments
- 29 March 2012
- Target decision date
- 6 April 2012
- Decision issued
- 28 March 2012
- Application expires
- 6 April 2012
- Permission expires
- 28 March 2015
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Ian Stephenson Grovewood House 155 Abbs Cross Gardens Hornchurch Essex RM12 4FS United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 17 February 2012
- Advertisement expiry
- 9 March 2012
- Site notice end
- 9 March 2012
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-01808774
- Documents
- 26
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Civic Core
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Watford
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