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Former Gas Holder Site Lower High Street

18/01625/DISCONDischarge of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 January 2019

Council decision: Discharge of ConditionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details submitted pursuant to Condition 15 (Detailed drainage strategy) of planning permission ref. 17/00593/FULM

Received
24 December 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Central
  1. Received24 Dec
  2. Validated24 Dec
  3. Consult.25 Jan
  4. Target18 Feb
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Former Gas Holder Site Lower High Street. Watford has handled 509 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 3 weeks quicker than Watford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Central.

96% of conditions 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

Application type
Discharge of conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 December 2018
Consultation expiry
25 January 2019
Consultation start
4 January 2019
Consultation end
25 January 2019
Last date for comments
25 January 2019
Target decision date
18 February 2019
Permission expires
23 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07499281
Documents
9
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II*: Frogmore HouseOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Gas Holder Site, Lower High StreetRegister site at or near this address · +1 more

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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

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© 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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