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Sandringham School The Ridgeway St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 9Nx

5/2023/1724Prior approval - solar panels to non-domestic buildingRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 29 September 2023

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

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

Proposal

Prior Approval - Installation of roof mounted solar panels

Received
11 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Marshalswick West
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated11 Aug
  3. Consult.21 Sep
  4. Target21 Sep
  5. Decided29 Sep

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Sandringham School The Ridgeway St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 9Nx. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 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 47 applications across Marshalswick West. 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 9NX
Application type
Prior approval - solar panels to non-domestic building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sandridge

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 August 2023
Consultation expiry
21 September 2023
Consultation end
21 September 2023
Target decision date
21 September 2023
Application expires
5 October 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
24 August 2023

Additional information

Documents
11

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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