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4 Campfield Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 5Ja

5/2023/1460Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 March 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Approved

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Proposed single storey 3m deep rear extension with flat roof and flat roof light. Pitched roof external canopy over front door. Hip to gable loft conversion with dormer window and roof lights, alterations to existing

Received
6 July 2023
Ward
Clarence
  1. Received6 Jul
  2. Validated9 Jul
  3. Consult.3 Aug
  4. Target3 Aug
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 248 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 4 Campfield Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 5Ja. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 250 days, 28 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Clarence. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 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
AL1 5JA
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 July 2023
Consultation expiry
4 August 2023
Consultation end
3 August 2023
Target decision date
3 August 2023
Application expires
3 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
LINGWOOD DESIGN ARCHITECTS LIMITED

Planning decision

Case officer
Saira Alam
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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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