First Floor 188 - 196 St Albans Road Watford WD24 4AS
Refused on 12 January 2018
Council decision: Refuse OPD Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Notification for the change of use of the first floor of the building from office use (Use Class B1) to residential (Use Class C3)
- Received
- 20 November 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Watford Borough Council
- Ward
- Callowland
- ReceivedReceived20 Nov
- ValidatedValidated20 Nov
- Consult.Consultation20 Dec
- TargetTarget Date15 Jan
- DecidedDecided12 Jan
Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at First Floor 188 - 196 St Albans Road Watford WD24 4AS. Watford has handled 222 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Watford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Callowland. We hold 538 applications in total for the WD24 postcode area.
70% of outline 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
- WD24 4AS
- Application type
- Class O Permitted Development
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 November 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 20 December 2017
- Consultation start
- 29 November 2017
- Consultation end
- 20 December 2017
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 January 2018
- Last date for comments
- 20 December 2017
- Target decision date
- 15 January 2018
- Permission expires
- 12 January 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Theo Pelagias Unit 1 830 Cambridge Parade Great Cambridge Road Enfield Middlesex EN1 4JU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 16
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (22)
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202417 Dec
Notification of reconfiguration of existing first floor, last used as office into 6no dwelling apartments.
PendingComm. COU to Dwelling Prior App24/01157/CTR - 202329 Dec
Notification of a reconfiguration of existing first floor, last used as office into 7 no dwelling apartments.
RefusedComm. COU to Dwelling Prior App23/01202/CTR - 201819 Feb
Notification for the change of use of the first floor of the building from office use (Use Class B1) to…
ApprovedClass O Permitted Development18/00229/OPD
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