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18A Gainsborough Avenue St Albans Al1 4Nl

5/2007/0005Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) (pre-2009)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 February 2007

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Conversion of garage into habitable room and alterations to openings

Received
2 January 2007
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clarence
  1. Received2 Jan
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 18A Gainsborough Avenue St Albans Al1 4Nl. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Clarence. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 postcode area.

71% of outline applications at St Albans City and District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL1 4NL
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) (pre-2009)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2007
Consultation expiry
5 February 2007
Consultation end
5 February 2007
Target decision date
5 February 2007
Committee meeting
7 February 2007
Decision issued
9 February 2007
Application expires
27 February 2007

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: St Albans - Clarence Park
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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, National Landscapes, 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: St Albans

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