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55A Sotheron Road Watford WD17 2QB

24/00169/FULHFull householderRefused
Householder

Refused on 22 April 2024

Council decision: Refuse Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Conversion of ground floor car park under-croft into additional habitable room serving first floor flat.

Received
27 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Central
  1. Received27 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Mar
  4. Target23 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 55A Sotheron Road Watford WD17 2QB. Watford has handled 999 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Watford's typical decision time. The site is in the Estcourt conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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.

80% of full 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 2QB
Application type
Full householder
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2024
Consultation expiry
27 March 2024
Neighbour consultation end
27 March 2024
Target decision date
23 April 2024
Permission expires
22 April 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Michael Holdbrook Flat 17 - 5 Clifton Court Corner Hall Hemel Hempstead HP3 9XY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12836988
Documents
11
Constraints
4

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.

Source: Watford

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