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Cotton Spring Friendless Lane Flamstead St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 8AF

22/02175/OTDOther Types of Prior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 August 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Proposed new agricultural access.

Received
6 July 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Agent
Briggs & Stone Ltd
  1. Received6 Jul
  2. Validated6 Jul
  3. Consult.1 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Aug

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Cotton Spring Friendless Lane Flamstead St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 8AF. Dacorum has handled 723 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Dacorum's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,254 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

89% of outline applications at Dacorum Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL3 8AF
Application type
Other Types of Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 July 2022
Consultation expiry
1 August 2022
Neighbour consultation start
11 July 2022
Neighbour consultation end
1 August 2022
Last date for comments
1 August 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
Briggs & Stone Ltd
Agent address
84 High Street Prestwood Great Missenden HP16 9ES

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11380185
Documents
7
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Dacorum
  • National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Dacorum

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