Henry Boot said on Tuesday that its land promotion arm, Hallam Land, has secured outline planning permission for 660 homes at Buntingford, Hertfordshire, after winning an appeal against an earlier refusal.
The London-listed land, property development and homebuilding group submitted the outline application in May 2024, only for the local authority to refuse it in October 2025, before Hallam Land appealed and secured consent in September 2026.
Hallam Land entered a planning promotion agreement to bring forward the site, on the western edge of Buntingford adjacent to the A507 and A10, in 2018.
The scheme allows for up to 40% affordable housing, including 60 units of elderly persons' accommodation, alongside a mixed-use local centre and 59 acres of green infrastructure covering playing fields, a community pavilion and a country park.
Hallam Land will now market the site, in whole or in part, to housebuilders in 2027.
The business has secured planning on more than 2,000 plots so far this year, against a target of submitting over 10,000 plots in the period.
Hallam Land manages one of the UK's largest strategic land portfolios, with the potential to facilitate more than 100,000 homes, and has facilitated around 52,000 new homes since 1990.
"Securing outline planning consent at Buntingford is an important milestone and demonstrates Hallam Land's expertise in navigating the planning process to unlock residential development opportunities in areas of high demand," said chief executive Ed Hutchinson.
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