\n A planning application to expand Hitchin Dental Practice in Highbury Road has been submitted to North Herts Council.\n<\/p>\n
\n The proposal is to change the residential use of the upper four floors of the building to commercial use, enabling the existing ground floor dental practice to expand.\n<\/p>\n
\n The expansion would include a reception\/waiting area, three consultation rooms and staff facilities.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a design and access statement accompanying the planning application, it says the expansion will “meet growing patient demand and enhance the range of services offered”.\n<\/p>\n
\n The scheme involves minor internal reconfiguration only, with no external alterations to the building or its elevations other than the introduction of new signage.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cycle parking will be provided within the site for both staff and patients.\n<\/p>\n
\n The existing three on-site parking spaces will remain available for use by the practice.\n<\/p>\n
\n The design and access statement points to the expansion increasing the provision of NHS dental services in the town, generating employment, and supporting the growth of a local healthcare business.\n<\/p>\n
\n To view the planning application in full, visit north-herts.co.uk and search for reference 25\/02941\/FP in the planning portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A planning application to expand Hitchin Dental Practice in Highbury Road has been submitted to North Herts Council.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-307765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}