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Herts Garden Rooms Lyon Way St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Lb

5/2023/2039Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 7 February 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Refused

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Front car park area to be changed to a commercial car wash. No fixed machinery to be installed. Hours of operation Mon-Sat 8 am - 7 pm, Sun 8 am - 4 pm

Received
4 October 2023
Ward
Hill End
  1. Received4 Oct
  2. Validated5 Oct
  3. Consult.27 Oct
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 125 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Herts Garden Rooms Lyon Way St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Lb. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 10 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 85 applications across Hill End. 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 0LB
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 October 2023
Consultation expiry
27 October 2023
Consultation end
27 October 2023
Target decision date
27 October 2023
Application expires
29 November 2023

Planning decision

Case officer
Laura Saxton
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12438126
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Alban Park/Acrewood Way/Lyon Way
  • Green belt: St AlbansNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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