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St Albans School Abbey Gateway St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Hb

5/2018/0008Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 March 2018

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Temporary use of storage containers only. The proposal includes the temporary location of 4no. 20-foot storage containers. Each container is sized 5.59m L x 2.32m W x 2.39m H and draped with camouflage netting in ord

Received
2 January 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Verulam
  1. Received2 Jan
  2. Validated11 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Jan
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at St Albans School Abbey Gateway St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Hb. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 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
AL3 4HB
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 January 2018
Target decision date
11 January 2018
Application expires
7 March 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-6612165
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: St Albans - Abbey Mill LanePart of the site · +4 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 3, Fishpool StreetOn this site · +20 more
  • Article 4 direction: Verulam and Fishpool StreetPart of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO1884Part of the site · +14 more
  • Green belt: St AlbansPart of the site
  • Scheduled monument: St Albans Abbey GatehousePart of the site · +1 more
Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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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