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Decision details

25/02064/OP Land Adjacent To 10, Hambridge Way, Pirton, Hertfordshire

Decision Maker: Planning Control Committee

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

RESOLVED: That application 25/02064/OP be GRANTED planning permission subject to:

 

A)    The completion of a satisfactory legal agreement and the applicant agreeing to extend the statutory period in order to complete the agreement.

B)    Providing delegated powers to the Development and Conservation Manager to (i) resolve outstanding matters including financial contributions and (ii) update conditions and informatives with minor amendments as required.

C)      That authority be delegated to the Development and Conservation Manager to finalise the planning obligations relating to sports facilities and playing-pitch provision, including determining whether any contribution or provision should be secured for Pirton Sports and Social Club, following consultation with Sport England and Pirton Sports and Social Club.

D)      That authority be delegated to the Development and Conservation Manager to require the applicant to submit a Ball Trajectory Risk Assessment or similar, undertaken by a suitably qualified person, and, following consultation with Sport England, to address this requirement before outline planning permission is issued.

E)    The conditions as set out in the report with an amendment to Condition 30 and an additional condition 33 as follows:

 

‘Condition 33

 

No development shall commence until a Market Housing Mix Schedule has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The schedule shall set out the number, type, and size of market dwellings proposed across the site and how this would complement the affordable housing mix agreed by planning obligation. The schedule shall take into account the requirements of Policy HS3 of the Local Plan and the most recent Strategic Housing Market Assessment. Any reserved matters application pursuant to this outline planning permission shall be in accordance with the approved schedule.

 

Reason: To inform the layout, scale and density of the development to be submitted at reserved matters stage and to secure an appropriate range of house types and sizes in accordable with Policies SP8 and HS3 of the North Hertfordshire Local Plan 2011-2031.

 

Condition 30

 

Prior to the commencement of development, an updated Noise Impact Assessment shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The assessment shall review the findings and recommendations of the Cass Allen Ltd report (Ref: RP01-25395-R0) dated 12 August 2025, taking account of the development layout and all relevant noise sources, and shall identify any necessary mitigation measures to protect the residential amenity of future occupants. No dwelling shall be occupied until the scheme providing protection for those dwellings has been implemented in accordance with the approved details. The approved scheme shall be retained in accordance with those details thereafter.

 

Reason: To ensure that the potential noise impacts of the development are properly assessed and appropriately mitigated, and to protect the residential amenity of future occupants, in accordance with Policy D3 of the North Hertfordshire Local Plan 2011–2031.’

Report author: Ben Glover

Publication date: 07/09/2026

Date of decision: 03/09/2026

Decided at meeting: 03/09/2026 - Planning Control Committee

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