Agenda

Planning Control Committee - Thursday, 30th January, 2025 7.30 pm

Venue: Council Chamber, District Council Offices, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3JF

Contact: 01462 464755  Email: committee.services@north-herts.gov.uk

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1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Members are required to notify any substitutions by midday on the day of the meeting.

 

Late substitutions will not be accepted and Members attending as a substitute without having given the due notice will not be able to take part in the meeting.

2.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

To receive petitions, comments and questions from the public.

3.

CHAIR'S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Members are reminded that any declarations of interest in respect of any business set out in the agenda, should be declared as either a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or Declarable Interest and are required to notify the Chair of the nature of any interest declared at the commencement of the relevant item on the agenda.  Members declaring a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest must withdraw from the meeting for the duration of the item. Members declaring a Declarable Interest, wishing to exercise a ‘Councillor Speaking Right’, must declare this at the same time as the interest, move to the public area before speaking to the item and then must leave the room before the debate and vote.

4.

NOTIFICATION OF OTHER BUSINESS

Members should notify the Chair of other business which they wish to be discussed at the end of either Part I or Part II business set out in the agenda. They must state the circumstances which they consider justify the business being considered as a matter of urgency.

 

The Chair will decide whether any item(s) raised will be considered.

5.

24/01604/FP TEMPLE DINSLEY, (FORMERLY THE PRINCESS HELENA COLLEGE), SCHOOL LANE, PRESTON, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG4 7RT pdf icon PDF 1 MB

REPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION MANAGER

Change of use of the Former Princess Helena College and associated land from a former all-girls boarding school to 69no. private residential dwellings (Use Class C3), including the conversion of the main Grade II* Listed House to 35no. new apartments, the conversion of the retained Teaching Block to provide 8 new apartments, the demolition of the existing sports hall building and science block and replacement with 20no. new houses and 2no. new apartments, the conversion of the Tank House and the Pump House buildings to provide 2no. detached dwellings and the erection of 2no. new dwellings located within the summerhouse plantation. The provision of cart lodges, creation of new car-park together with domestic storage units and covered parking bays to include solar PV panels, and waste storage units and the provision of new driveways and associated works. Erection of new sub-station building and plant room. In addition, the associated landscaping of the site including provision of new pathways and gates and the reinstatement of Grade II* Listed Parks and Gardens and the provision of a new cricket pitch, associated cricket pavilion and car parking and refurbished tennis courts (as amended by plans and supporting documents received November 2024).

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24/01605/LBC TEMPLE DINSLEY, (FORMERLY THE PRINCESS HELENA COLLEGE), SCHOOL LANE, PRESTON, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG4 7RT pdf icon PDF 491 KB

REPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION MANAGER

All works associated with the conversion of the Grade II* Listed Building from the former all-girls boarding school to 35no. new apartments and the works for the reinstatement of the Grade II* Listed Park and Garden at Temple Dinsley and all works associated with the conversion of the curtilage listed Tank House and Pump House buildings and the demolition of the existing sports hall.

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APPEALS pdf icon PDF 138 KB

REPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION MANAGER

 

To update Members on appeals lodged and any decisions made.

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