Honeysuckle Barn, Birch Lane, Flaunden, Hertfordshire HP3 0PT

Application No. 20/03345/FUL

Construction of two new dwellings at Honeysuckle Barn, Birch Lane, Flaunden, Hertfordshire HP3 0PT.

CPRE Hertfordshire have concerns regarding this application for two 4-bed dwellings in the Green Belt.

We accept that the site is an infill site within the village, and hence the proposed development is not inappropriate under the provisions of paragraph 145(e) of the National
Planning Policy Framework.

However, the site is part of a much larger area of land of approx. 6.7 hectares, shown in blue on the location plan. That land is subject to a unilateral undertaking, part of a Section 106 Agreement relating to a previous application 4/03481/15/MFA. That application permitted barn conversion to create a two bed-room house and the construction of a four-bedroom house as well as the refurbishment of the stable block. Three buildings on the larger site have been converted to dwellings with the benefit of planning permission, or refurbished. Clause 16(b)iii of the undertaking required that the rest of the land should not be used for any purpose other than equestrian stables and associated equestrian uses.