Planning application
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Works: Demolition Trees
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Demolition of the existing nursery building followed by construction of 8 new residential homes to include amenity space, new trees, planting and car parking.
As published by the council, reference 26/0847/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 26/0847/FUL
- Category
- Full applications
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 19 Jun 2026
- Validated
- 19 Jun 2026
- Ward
- Bushey St James
- Parish
- No Parish
- Postcode
- WD23 3AQ
Site history
Applications at this address on the Hertsmere register
This site has had 6 applications since 2023: 4 approved, 0 refused.
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26/0958/MA Decided
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for a non-material amendment to allow for alterations to Plot 1's proposed dwelling following the grant of planning permission ref 19/0648/FUL.
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26/0579/MA Granted
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for a non-material amendment to allow for roof alterations following the grant of planning permission ref 21/2391/VOC.
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23/0128/DOC Granted
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 5 (roads, footways, cycleways, and foul and surface water drainage) of planning permission reference 21/2391/VOC.
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23/0129/DOC Granted
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 8 (material samples) and 10 (details of materials for hard surfaced areas) of planning permission reference 21/2391/VOC.
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23/0131/DOC Granted
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 4 (surface water drainage plan) of planning permission reference 21/2391/VOC.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 Jun 2026
Received by Hertsmere
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24 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 14 August 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Hertsmere took a median of 58 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Mark Bell Architects Ltd Agent, an architecture practice registered in Macclesfield
Active · incorporated 2016 · Macclesfield
9 applications on PlanIndex · across 3 councils
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See their track recordDocuments
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
32 documents on file for this application
- Hig comment
- Opossing vehicles along access swept path analysis
- Fire tender and refuse swept path anaylsis
- Response to highways comments
- Place services - arb
- Consultee comment submitted online
- Ecology response
- Aia
- Ams
- Tpp
- Affinity water response
- Arboriculture response
- Cil form 1
- Highways response
- Consultee comment submitted online
- Thames water response
- Applicationformredacted
- Site location plan
- Site plan - parking review
- Floor plans - house type b
- Elevations sections and 3d views house type b
- Floor plans - house type c
- Elevations sections and 3d views house type c
- Floor plans - house type d
- Elevations sections and 3d views house type d
- Aa186_first place nursery design access statement rev a
- Bng - first place nursery site wd23 3aq v1 2 06 2026
- Bng metric first place nursery site wd23 3aq v1
- Arboricultural survey bs5837 - arbtech tsr 01 050526
- 2026 preliminary ecological appraisal and roost assessment v1.0
- 2026.05.15 - 6796-eas-ts-h - first place nursery
- 20260514-6796-eas-frasuds-w-a- first place nursery
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Hertsmere for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Hertsmere decided full applications in a median of 90 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About full applications
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Nearby applications
Within 500 metres
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First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for a non-material amendment to allow for alterations to Plot 1's proposed dwelling following the grant of planning permission ref 19/0648/FUL.
Decided 5 docsDomestic -
11 Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Single storey rear extension and new front porch. Certificate of Lawful Development (Proposed).
Granted Lawful development Extension 9 docsSmall domestic -
Vrindavan 7 Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Single storey front porch and side extension; part single, part two-storey rear extension.
Refused Householder Extension 12 docsSmall domestic -
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for a non-material amendment to allow for roof alterations following the grant of planning permission ref 21/2391/VOC.
Granted Amendments Roofing 5 docs -
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 5 (roads, footways, cycleways, and foul and surface water drainage) of planning permission reference 21/2391/VOC.
Granted Conditions 7 docs -
First Place Nursery Falconer Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 3AQ
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 8 (material samples) and 10 (details of materials for hard surfaced areas) of planning permission reference 21/2391/VOC.
Granted Conditions 7 docs
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