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25/01374/MFA - Major Full Application Approved

Proposal

Change of use to repurpose 206 rooms for visitor accommodation alongside current uses and facilities. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Jun 2025

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Consultation

4 Jun 2025

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Validated

29 Jan 2026

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Committee

12 Mar 2026

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Approved

1 Apr 2026

Approved on 1 Apr 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Dacorum Development Management on 12 Mar 2026.

Approved

Officers advised approval because the existing rooms could support the rural economy without harming heritage, highways or the protected landscape, subject to mitigation.
The committee voted 12 for, none against and one abstention, resolving to delegate approval subject to assessment and mitigation conditions.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, local concerns, committee vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Dacorum's committee minutes of 12 Mar 2026.

Documents 54

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Mfa - grant (decision notice) Decision Notice · 1 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Committee report DMC Report · 12 Mar 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 10

Plans & drawings 36

Application forms 1

PDF Application form redacted Amended Information · 29 Jan 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 7

7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Ashridge House, including raised terrace, walls and steps to east and south, and iron railings to north, Grade I, about 22 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II*, 5 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 7 with distances

22 mAshridge House, including raised terrace, walls and steps to east and south, and iron railings to northGrade I
113 mFountain in Monks Monks' Garden at Ashridge Management CollegeGrade II
114 mMonk's Barn, with walls, and former Cow House, AshridgeGrade II
116 mCoach House, AshridgeGrade II
120 mStables and coach house at AshridgeGrade II
138 mHoneysuckle and Tower Cottage with attached walls and gateway, AshridgeGrade II
145 mGrotto, tomb and souterrein at AshridgeGrade II*

Historic England ↗

Chilterns National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Registered park or garden: Ashridge Estate

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

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. A site survey can differ.

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 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Special area of conservation about 251 m away: Chilterns Beechwoods

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

SSSI about 251 m away: Ashridge Commons and Woods SSSI.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. 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: Major Full Application
Postcode: HP4 1NS
Received: 2 Jun 2025
Validated: 29 Jan 2026
Ward: Ashridge
Parish: Little Gaddesden Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Decision: Grant Permission/Consent
Decision date: 1 Apr 2026
Decision level: Committee Decision
Agent: Lichfields

How this decision compares

Decided in 62 days from validation, 6 days slower than Dacorum's median of 56 for changes of use. Approved, as 78% of changes of use here are.

This one62d

Council56d

UK56d

59%decided within 8 weeks

78%approved

12%go to committee

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-13785884
Neighbours: 4 Jun 2025
Comments by: 25 Jun 2025
Committee: 12 Mar 2026
Env. assessment: No

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Dacorum

Planning Authority Score

7.3/10

Good

#51 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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

Ashridge House Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 1NS Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Planning committee

Documents 54

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 10

Plans & drawings 36

Application forms 1

Other documents 5

Site constraints 7

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