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24 Station Road Harpenden Hertfordshire Al5 4Se

5/2014/2898Change of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 9 December 2014

Council decision: DC4 RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from Class A1(retail) to Class A4 (drinking establishments) and replacement shopfront

Received
14 October 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harpenden West
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target19 Nov
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 24 Station Road Harpenden Hertfordshire Al5 4Se. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Harpenden conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. 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.

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
AL5 4SE
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harpenden Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2014
Consultation expiry
19 November 2014
Consultation end
19 November 2014
Target decision date
19 November 2014
Application expires
9 December 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
29 October 2014

Additional information

Documents
14

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. 2015
    9 Mar

    Change of use to mixed Class A1 (retail) and Class A4 (drinking establishment) (resubmission following…

    RefusedChange of UseRelated5/2015/0699
  2. 2014
    14 Oct

    Change of use from Class A1(retail) to Class A4 (drinking establishments) and replacement shopfront

    This applicationRefusedAmendment5/2014/2898

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