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39 Hatfield Road Watford Hertfordshire WD24 4DA

25/00908/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 11 December 2025

Council decision: Conditional Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use from 5 bedroom HMO (C4) to a residential children's home (C2) for up to three children and young people

Received
10 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Callowland
  1. Received10 Oct
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.10 Nov
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 39 Hatfield Road Watford Hertfordshire WD24 4DA. Watford has handled 593 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Watford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
WD24 4DA
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2025
Consultation expiry
10 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
10 November 2025
Target decision date
12 December 2025
Permission expires
11 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Josh Chambers 167-169 Great Portland Street London W1W 5PF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14396620
Comments
0
Documents
12
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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)

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, 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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