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14 Boleyn Drive St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 2Bs

5/2023/2228Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 December 2023

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Hip to gable end loft conversion with rear facing dormer and insertion of rooflight into existing front facing roof

Received
3 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sopwell
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target1 Dec
  5. Decided7 Dec

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 14 Boleyn Drive St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 2Bs. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Sopwell. 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 2BS
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2023
Consultation expiry
1 December 2023
Consultation end
1 December 2023
Target decision date
1 December 2023
Application expires
31 December 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    3 Nov

    Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Hip to gable end loft conversion with rear facing dormer and insertion…

    This applicationApprovedOutline5/2023/2228
  2. 2023
    3 Nov

    Single storey side and rear extension with insertion of rooflights and pitched roof to existing side…

    DC3 Conditional PermissionHouseholderFiled alongside5/2023/2229

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