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8 Smallford Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Sa

5/2023/1393Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 9 January 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Refused

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - We currently run a supported living property for adults with mental health issues under a HMO licence. We currently have a housing demand and are proposing to convert our existing office into another bedroom. There w

Received
28 June 2023
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received28 Jun
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.14 Sep
  4. Target14 Sep
  5. Decided9 Jan

Decided in 141 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 8 Smallford Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Sa. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 194 days, 20 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Colney Heath. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 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
AL4 0SA
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2023
Consultation expiry
15 September 2023
Consultation end
14 September 2023
Target decision date
14 September 2023
Application expires
16 October 2023

Planning decision

Case officer
George Kent
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12275941
Documents
3

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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