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Victoria Garage Motor Engineers Victoria Road Harpenden Hertfordshire Al5 4Eb

5/2014/0343(Minor) Retail Distribution & ServicingRefused

Refused on 3 June 2014

Council decision: DC4 RefusalNorth

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

Proposal

Demolition of existing single storey vehicle repair and maintenance shed and construction of three storey office (resubmission following withdrawal of 5/2013/2951)

Received
10 February 2014
Decision level
North
Ward
Harpenden West
  1. Received10 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided3 Jun

Decided in 112 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Victoria Garage Motor Engineers Victoria Road Harpenden Hertfordshire Al5 4Eb. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the Harpenden conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 197 applications across Harpenden West. We hold 3,774 applications in total for the AL5 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
AL5 4EB
Application type
(Minor) Retail Distribution & Servicing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harpenden Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2014
Consultation expiry
19 March 2014
Consultation end
19 March 2014
Target decision date
19 March 2014
Committee meeting
2 June 2014
Application expires
7 April 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 February 2014

Appeal

Appeal reference
App/B1930/A/14/2222032
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed
Appeal decision date
1 October 2014

Additional information

Documents
23

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: Harpenden
  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2014
    10 Feb

    Demolition of existing single storey vehicle repair and maintenance shed and construction of three storey…

    This applicationRefusedApplication5/2014/0343
  2. 2013
    31 Oct

    Demolition of existing single storey vehicle repair and maintenance shed and construction of three storey…

    WithdrawnWithdrawnPart of5/2013/2951

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