Planning committees across Hertfordshire are busy as ever, with plenty of applications and appeals coming through.
We've compiled a list of just some of the applications that are currently pending or have been approved in our areas.
Here are some that might have gone under the radar.
1. Plans approved for 1,500-home Stevenage development
Planning permission has been granted for up to 1,500 homes to be built in Stevenage.
Full planning permission for the first phase of the development, which includes 390 homes, has been granted by Stevenage Borough Council, with outline planning permission given for the remaining 1,110 homes.
The development site is on the western border of Stevenage, on the far side of the A1(M), with access proposed from Meadway and Bessemer Drive.
The A1(M) runs along the site's eastern boundary, with the new housing, built by Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon, being separated from the A1(M) by "a mound and noise fence", the developers said.
As well as up to 1,500 homes, the proposed development also includes a GP surgery, primary school with up to three-form entry, care home with up to 72 beds, neighbourhood centre with retail space, and employment land.
2. £40m logistics facility to go ahead
The five-acre site in Pin Green had been earmarked for a new Morrisons supermarket, but those plans were scrapped in April before property developers Fiera Real Estate and Wrenbridge bought the plot in June.
They were given the green light to demolish an existing warehouse – previously used by Bond International but currently empty – and replace it with a new 10,824 square metre building on the corner of Wedgwood Way and Cartwright Road.
108 car parking spaces are included in the plans, as well as 18 spaces for lorries. The developers said they want to “attract a range of occupiers” including light industrial, manufacturing, storage and distribution.
3. Ex-care home could become 72 new homes
Plans, submitted by Even Hatfield Ltd, would see St Christopher's Care Home in Drakes Way turned into a major housing development.
The proposed development would consist of 16 one-bedroom apartments, 12 two-bedroom apartments, 28 two-bedroom houses, 12 three-bedroom houses, and four four-bedroom houses.
The care home has stood empty since last year, when operator HC-ONE were forced to close the site after declining resident and workforce numbers led to "financial constraints".
4. Plans resubmitted for mega solar farm
A proposal has been resubmitted for the construction of a mega solar farm in North Hertfordshire.
Under the plans, land in St Ippolyts will be used, opposite Wymondley grid station and to the south of Sperberry Hill.
In an ongoing saga known as the "2023 Scheme", planning permission for the 35.5 hectare solar powered site has been sought twice before.
Once in February, 2022 and later in November 2023, when North Herts Council refused the proposal with an officer acknowledging the decision was "finely balanced" either way.
In 2024, applicants Axis returned with a screening opinion application submitted in July for the solar farm and the developers have returned for formal planning permission.
Key changes include a 9% reduction in the amount of land covered by panels - while maintaining the same output - and the removal of infrastructure to accommodate for new woodland planting and grassland.
5. 190-home Bricket Wood development approved again
Section 106s are legal agreements between developers and local authorities that provide money for infrastructure and public services in the area.
If an agreement is not reached within the next month, the application is set to be refused planning permission.
At a meeting of St Albans City & District Council’s development management committee on November 4, councillors voted to grant conditional permission for the development for a second time.
The development, put forward by 51 Pegasus Ltd, is known as Copeswood and would be located off Lye Lane, near the North Orbital Road.
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