8 Sandridge Park Porters Wood St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ph

5/2018/0030Prior Approval - Office to residentialRefused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 2 March 2018

Council decision: COU Prior approval required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Approval - Change of use from Class B1(a)(office) to Class C3 (residential) to create 8 flats

Received: 5 January 2018
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Marshalswick South

ReceivedReceived5 Jan
ValidatedValidated8 Jan
Consult.Consultation7 Feb
TargetTarget Date7 Feb
DecidedDecided2 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 8 Sandridge Park Porters Wood St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ph. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 6PH
Application type: Prior Approval - Office to residential
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 January 2018
Consultation expiry: 7 February 2018
Consultation end: 7 February 2018
Target decision date: 7 February 2018
Application expires: 4 March 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 17 January 2018

Additional information

Documents: 18

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Article 4 direction: Porters Wood/Soothouse Spring
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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Source: St Albans

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