Hertfordshire, Potters Bar
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Green Belt edges, wide plots and a steady demand for larger family houses.
Building in Potters Bar
What working in Potters Bar actually involves
Potters Bar sits on the southern edge of Hertfordshire, where good rail links and wide inter-war plots make substantial extensions and replacement dwellings worth doing properly.
Most of our work here is about turning a competent 1930s house into a considerably larger one: two storey side additions, full width rear extensions, loft space brought into use and a whole house remodel behind it.
Local detail
- Planning authority
- Hertsmere Borough Council
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Also covering
- Radlett, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Hatfield, Cuffley
Planning
Planning policy in Potters Bar
The constraints we test before design begins, not after a refusal.
- Hertsmere Borough Council determines applications and applies its own design and residential extensions guidance.
- Green Belt wraps around the town, so new homes almost always come through replacement dwellings on existing plots.
- Two storey side extensions are assessed on the gap to the boundary and the rhythm of the street, which is generous here compared with most of the county.
- Larger plots make garden rooms, annexes and outbuildings realistic, subject to the usual limits on residential use.
- Tree cover on the older estates means Tree Preservation Orders regularly influence foundation design.
Guidance
Useful reading before you start
FAQs
Potters Bar questions, answered
Often yes. Replacement dwelling policy in the Green Belt is judged on volume and footprint against the original building, so we measure the existing house properly before any design begins.
Nearby
Other towns we work in across Hertfordshire
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