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Bluebell Cottage Tollgate Road Colney Heath St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Nz

5/2022/1997Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 25 October 2022

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (existing) - Retaining the use of land as residential curtilage

Received
7 August 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated8 Aug
  3. Consult.9 Sep
  4. Target9 Sep
  5. Decided25 Oct

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Bluebell Cottage Tollgate Road Colney Heath St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Nz. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Colney Heath. We hold 2,083 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 0NZ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 August 2022
Consultation expiry
9 September 2022
Consultation end
9 September 2022
Target decision date
9 September 2022
Application expires
2 October 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11452793
Documents
9

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2022
    8 Aug

    Certificate of Lawfulness (existing) - Retention of existing garage, car port and store as described within…

    ApprovedCertificate of Lawfulness (existing)Filed alongside5/2022/1998
  2. 2022
    7 Aug

    Certificate of Lawfulness (existing) - Retaining the use of land as residential curtilage

    This applicationApprovedAmendment5/2022/1997

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