Plans for Ickleford development

Plans have been posted for eight homes in Ickleford.

The application, submitted by Foxberry Developments Ltd and Hitchin-based BBR Designs, features six three-bed homes, built as three pairs of semi-detached properties, and two detached three-bed dwellings off Turnpike Lane and Lodge Court.

As Nub News has previously reported, Ickleford residents objected to the original application, insisting that 'green areas in the village [are] rapidly disappearing'.

However, after the inspector approved the plans via an appeal, the site is no longer part of the Green Belt, its status revoked as part of the adopted North Herts Local Plan.

Therefore the planning application is a revised scheme for five homes on the same site, which were approved in 2021 after a government inspector overruled North Herts Council initial rejection.

Those behind the application offered a "revised proposal to the previous permissions to erect eight new dwellings on the site with a new contemporary high-quality design which aims to greater enhance the character and quality of the area."