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3 Little Acre St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 5Sg

5/2023/1575Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 5 September 2023

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (existing) - Single storey rear extension

Received
23 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Batchwood
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.22 Aug
  4. Target22 Aug
  5. Decided5 Sep

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 3 Little Acre St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 5Sg. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Batchwood. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 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
AL3 5SG
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2023
Consultation expiry
22 August 2023
Consultation end
22 August 2023
Target decision date
22 August 2023
Application expires
17 September 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12334714
Documents
13

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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