Agricultural Barn And Roadside Gault Brick Barn Ashwell Road Newnham Hertfordshire SG7 5JX Data via plota.co.uk

26/01942/FP - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Change of use of parts of two existing agricultural barns to form a workshop-based vocational learning and tuition centre (Use Class F1) including external alterations to the gault brick barn including the installation of exterior cladding, brick plinth and proposed window and door and to facilitate the change of use. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

3 Aug 2026

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Approved

1 Oct 2026

Approved on 1 Oct 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 2

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) 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.

Conservation area 21 m away: Newnham

The edge of the area; work outside it can still affect its setting.

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Also on the record

2 listed buildings within 150 m.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 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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