Round House Farm Roestock Lane Colney Heath St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Pp
Approved on 7 July 2014
Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness (existing) - Change of use of units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 from agricultural to mixed use class B1 and class B8 (general office, industrial and storage and distribution)
- Received
- 5 March 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Colney Heath
- ReceivedReceived5 Mar
- ValidatedValidated6 Mar
- Consult.Consultation2 Apr
- TargetTarget Date2 Apr
- DecidedDecided7 Jul
Decided in 123 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Round House Farm Roestock Lane Colney Heath St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Pp. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 124 days, 10 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Colney Heath. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 postcode area.
55% of amendment 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
- AL4 0PP
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Colney Heath
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 March 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 2 April 2014
- Consultation end
- 2 April 2014
- Target decision date
- 2 April 2014
- Application expires
- 30 April 2014
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: St Albans
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201718 Jul
Discharge of Conditions 3 (samples of materials) and 12 (site investigation) of planning permission…
Discharge of Condition - PartialDischarge of conditions5/2017/2091 - 201722 Feb
Discharge of Conditions 8 (tree safeguarding), 10 (surface water drainage) and 11 (on-site parking) of…
Discharge of Condition - ApprovedDischarge of conditions5/2017/0532 - 201523 Dec
Demolition of existing buildings, change of use from mixed use Class B1 and Class B8 (general office…
DC3 Conditional Permission(Minor) Dwellings5/2015/3674 - 201215 Aug
Discharge of Conditions 17 (contamination site investigation), 18 (remediation strategy), 19 (unsuspected…
Discharge of Condition - PartialDischarge of conditions5/2012/2224 - 201218 Jun
Discharge of Conditions 5 (samples of materials), 6 (details of materials of hard surfaced areas), 17, 18, 19…
Discharge of Condition - PartialDischarge of conditions5/2012/1665
Source: St Albans
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