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26/00535/FUL - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Demolition of outbuildings. Construction of 3 four bedroom detached dwellinghouses and garaging with associated access arrangements Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Mar 2026
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Validated
6 Mar 2026
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Consultation
10 Mar 2026
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Committee
11 Jun 2026
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Approved
18 Aug 2026

Approved on 18 Aug 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 21 Aug 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Dacorum Development Management on 11 Jun 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the site was grey belt, sustainable, well designed and would not cause significant harm.
  • The parish council and four neighbouring properties objected over Green Belt harm, landscape, ecology, highways, amenity and infrastructure.
  • Members voted eight for, one against and one abstention, resolving to delegate approval subject to obligations and conditions.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee vote and approval conditions. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Dacorum's committee minutes of 11 Jun 2026.

Documents 33

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
3 listed buildings within 150 m.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Dacorum
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
HP3 0JN
Received
4 Mar 2026
Validated
6 Mar 2026
Ward
Bovingdon / Flaunden / Chipperfield
Parish
Bovingdon Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Decision
Grant Permission/Consent
Decision date
18 Aug 2026
Decision level
Committee Decision
Agent
Atelier Architecture & Design Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 165 days from validation, 110 days slower than Dacorum's median of 55 for demolitions. Approved, as 81% of demolitions here are.

71%decided within 8 weeks
81%approved
81decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Dacorum in the last twelve months, from validation. Dacorum decision record →

Public comments

4comments received
4 objecting

100% object · above the UK average of 75%

17 neighbours consulted · Last counted 21 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14747545
Neighbours
10 Mar 2026
Comments by
31 Mar 2026
Committee
11 Jun 2026
Env. assessment
No
Dacorum
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#51 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Dacorum is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #50 out of 296. Only 22% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Dacorum decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #150 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #171 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #50 of 296
22%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #22 of 296
76%
Minor dwellings approved
127 decided (1-9 homes)
79%
Major dwellings approved
14 decided (10+ homes)
71%
Change of use approved
21 decided
1,130
Total decisions
132 refused in the year to March 2026