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Station Master's House 15 Harmer Green Lane Digswell Welwyn AL6 0AS

6/2015/2313/FULLFULL PERMISSIONWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 23 August 2016

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from vacant station masters house to hot food take-away (class A5) (operating Mon - Sun 16.30 - 22.30 hours). Erection of a 1.2m dwarf wall, lowering of ground floor roof, installation of an extract duct behind parapet wall together with elevation alterations including provision of an access ramp

Received
13 November 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Welwyn East
  1. Received13 Nov
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.2 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Aug

Decided in 159 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Station Master's House 15 Harmer Green Lane Digswell Welwyn AL6 0AS. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 2,195 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 284 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Welwyn East. We hold 969 applications in total for the AL6 postcode area.

83% of full applications at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL6 0AS
Application type
FULL PERMISSION
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Welwyn

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2016
Consultation expiry
14 June 2016
Consultation end
2 May 2016
Neighbour consultation end
2 May 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Melville Seth-Ward & Partners 3a Canberra House London Road St Albans AL1 1LE

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
27 April 2016
Site notice end
14 June 2016

Additional information

UPRN
100081155915
Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2015
    13 Nov

    Change of use from a vacant station masters house to class use A5 (hot food take-away). Erection of a 1.2m…

    WithdrawnListed building consentFiled alongside6/2015/2169/LB
  2. 2015
    13 Nov

    Change of use from vacant station masters house to hot food take-away (class A5) (operating Mon - Sun 16.30…

    This applicationWithdrawnFull6/2015/2313/FULL

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2017
    11 Aug

    Submission of details pursuant to condition 2 (materials specification),3 (detailed drawings of windows…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions6/2017/1777/COND
  2. 2016
    6 Oct

    Change of use from vacated Station Master's House to A5 (Hot Food Takeaway) Indian cuisine takeaway

    ApprovedListed building consent6/2016/2070/LB
  3. 2016
    6 Oct

    Change of use from vacated Station Master's house to A5 (Hot Food Takeaway) Indian cuisine takeaway

    ApprovedFULL PERMISSION6/2016/2069/FULL
  4. 2016
    14 Sep

    Change of use of Station Master's House to Dry Cleaning reception and waiting area.

    ApprovedFULL PERMISSION6/2016/1902/FULL
  5. 2016
    14 Sep

    Alterations in association with the change of use from vacant Station Master's House to Dry Cleaning…

    ApprovedListed building consent6/2016/1903/LB
  6. 2015
    9 Feb

    Proposed alterations in association with change of use of rail station building to use class A5 take-away

    WithdrawnListed building consentN6/2015/0296/LB

Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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