Rye End Farm, Green Lane, Codicote, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 8SU

Applications Nos. 20/00642/FP and 20/00643/LBC

Change of use of Barn and East & West Stables to ancillary residential accommodation and change of use of land from agricultural to residential. Single storey link extension between Farmhouse and East Stables and between East Stables and Barn and single storey extension to front (east side) of West Stables at Rye End Farm, Green Lane, Codicote, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 8SU.

CPRE Hertfordshire are responding to the above applications jointly as they are intimately linked and the documentation accompanying both are identical.

Both Rye End Farmhouse and the outbuildings adjoining it are Grade II listed (National Heritage list nos. 1102759 and 1295870.) Consequently they require to be considered under
the provisions of paragraphs 190 – 195 of the National Planning Policy Framework. As the buildings also sit within the Green Belt, the proposed extensions require to be considered against the Green Belt policies in the NPPF and the North Herts Local Plan. As neither application contains a Planning Statement, the applicant fails to address these issues.