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Former Gas Holder Site, Encompassing Frogmore House Lower High Street Watford WD17 2HX

19/00652/DISCONDischarge of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 July 2019

Council decision: Discharge of ConditionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Details submitted for Condition 39 (hard landscaping) and Condition 40 (soft landscaping) pursuant to planning permission 17/00593/FULM

Received
5 June 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Central
  1. Received5 Jun
  2. Validated5 Jun
  3. Consult.26 Jun
  4. Target31 Jul
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Former Gas Holder Site, Encompassing Frogmore House Lower High Street Watford WD17 2HX. Watford has handled 509 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. 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.

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

Postcode
WD17 2HX
Application type
Discharge of conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 June 2019
Consultation expiry
26 June 2019
Consultation start
5 June 2019
Consultation end
26 June 2019
Last date for comments
26 June 2019
Target decision date
31 July 2019
Permission expires
25 July 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07852997
Documents
28
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Brownfield land register: Gas Holder Site, Lower High StreetRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, conservation 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 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

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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