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Summerlea Chequers Lane Garston Hertfordshire Wd25 0Gn

5/2016/3166Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 25 November 2016

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Demolition of an existing single storey structure positioned at the rear of the property and the erection of a two storey structure extending 3m from the house

Received
17 October 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Stephen
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated18 Oct
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target11 Nov
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Summerlea Chequers Lane Garston Hertfordshire Wd25 0Gn. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across St Stephen. We hold 496 applications in total for the WD25 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
WD25 0GN
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Stephen

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 October 2016
Consultation expiry
11 November 2016
Consultation end
11 November 2016
Target decision date
11 November 2016
Application expires
13 December 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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: 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.

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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