- Planning authority
- North Hertfordshire District Council
- Postcodes
- SG6
- Noon sun, 21 March
- About 38°
- Noon sun, 21 December
- About 15°
- Planning plan
- Local Plan
- County
- Hertfordshire
The kinds of plot we look at in Letchworth Garden City
A bungalow on a big plot gives you more choices than most homes. You might keep the bungalow and build a new home beside or behind it, or replace it with two or more homes if the council would support that. We also look at long back gardens, corner plots, garage courts, yards and land with tricky access across Letchworth Garden City and nearby places such as Hitchin, Stevenage and Biggleswade. The free appraisal shows which of these choices are realistic for your land, and what each would involve.
Planning and light in Letchworth Garden City
Planning applications for new homes in gardens in Letchworth Garden City are decided by North Hertfordshire District Council. Its decisions follow the council’s Local Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Officers usually focus on access, privacy, daylight, the character of the street and the garden left for both homes. Many councils use separation guides of around 21 metres between facing back windows and around 12 to 15 metres between a back window and a blank side wall, but North Hertfordshire District Council’s own guidance decides. We prepare the application with care; the decision is always the council’s.
What we can do in Letchworth Garden City
Sell or partner
- Sell part of your garden
- Sell subject to planning
- Garden plot option agreement
- Planning promotion for your garden plot
- Joint venture on your garden plot
- Combine gardens with your neighbours
Design and build
- Build a new home in your garden
- Planning permission for a garden plot
- Build a home for family in your garden
- Plot feasibility and design
By plot type
- Large rear gardens
- Corner and side plots
- Garage courts and yards
- Tandem and landlocked plots
- Bungalows on large plots
What happens next
If you’d like to talk it through first, call us. There’s no script and no hard sell. We’ll ask a few questions about your plot in Letchworth Garden City, explain how the free appraisal works and answer what we can on the spot. If it makes sense to go further, we’ll agree the next step together; if it doesn’t, you’ve lost nothing.
Questions about garden plots in Letchworth Garden City
What happens if planning is refused for a plot in Letchworth Garden City?
If you agreed a sale subject to planning, the contract doesn’t complete and you keep your land. We’ll then look at the reasons North Hertfordshire District Council gave and tell you honestly whether a revised application, an appeal or stopping is the sensible choice. Nothing about your own house changes.
Who decides planning for a new home in a garden in Letchworth Garden City?
The decision is made by North Hertfordshire District Council, using the council’s Local Plan, the NPPF and its own design guidance. Small schemes are usually decided by planning officers, and national and council rules set out when one can go to a planning committee instead. We prepare and submit the application and answer the council’s questions, but we can’t promise the outcome.
How much is my garden plot in Letchworth Garden City worth?
There’s no honest figure without looking at the plot. Value depends on location, size, access, title and planning, and costs such as a long drive or difficult ground come straight off what the land is worth. Our free appraisal looks at all of that before we talk about price.
How do you stop a new home in Letchworth Garden City overshadowing the neighbours?
By testing the layout against the sun and the council’s guidance. At midday on 21 March the sun in Letchworth Garden City is about 38° up, so a 5 m eaves line casts a shadow of roughly 6.4 m; in December it is far lower. Spacing, roof height, orientation and single-storey designs all help keep light where it belongs.