Recommendation that permission should be refused

The report prepared for Hertfordshire Development Control Committee has now been published.  It recommends that planning permission should be refused.

The full report can be read here.

Does this recommendation to refuse mean the application is now dead?  No ! This is a very positive step, but, there is still a ‘but’! The committee of Herts County councillors (who in this case are the relevant authority) could still recommend approval. To do this, they would have to overturn the recommendations of both Hertfordshire and Dacorum’s planners and a whole range of other objections. 

Separately Dacorum ( the landowners  but not the operator) have to give permission. Under these circumstances we would consider that as landowners Dacorum would find it hard to justify to its electorate the wisdom of proceeding.  But the considerations may not quite be the same.

Remember that the whole saga has continued for well over a year after Dacorum’s planners firmly rejected the proposals! We, and you, need therefore to continue with our objections on both fronts.  Members of BEVA and the Bovingdon, Box Lane and Bourne End Action Group will be speaking at the planning meeting at County Hall on 21^st October.