Carpenders Park Nursery Little Oxhey Lane Carpenders Park Watford Hertfordshire WD19 5BA Data via plota.co.uk

26/1045/CLED - Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use Awaiting decision

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness Existing Development: Use of the site as garden centre (Use class Ea) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
29 Jun 2026
Decision
Expected by 11 Sept 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 11 Sept 2026. The consultation period closed on 29 Jul 2026.

Site constraints 3

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 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
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.
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

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use
Postcode
WD19 5BA
Received
29 Jun 2026
Validated
29 Jun 2026
Ward
Carpenders Park
Parish
Watford Rural Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
11 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
DLA Town Planning Ltd

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 12 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15040102
Comments by
29 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry
24 Aug 2026
Env. assessment
No
Three Rivers
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#54 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Three Rivers is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #30 out of 296. Only 24% 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
Three Rivers decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #145 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #184 of 296
82%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #30 of 296
24%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #28 of 296
85%
Minor dwellings approved
62 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
94%
Change of use approved
17 decided
819
Total decisions
86 refused in the year to March 2026