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The Farmhouse Round House Farm Roestock Lane Colney Heath St Albans Al4 0Pp

5/2023/2267Prior Notification HouseholderRefused
Householder

Refused on 2 January 2024

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

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

Proposal

Prior Approval - Single storey rear extensions up to 3m in height x 8m in depth and 2.7m in height to the eaves and single storey side extension 3m in height x 5.2875m in width and 2.7m in height to the eaves

Received
9 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received9 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided2 Jan

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey side extension at The Farmhouse Round House Farm Roestock Lane Colney Heath St Albans Al4 0Pp. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Colney Heath. 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 0PP
Application type
Prior Notification Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2023
Consultation expiry
22 December 2023
Consultation end
22 December 2023
Target decision date
22 December 2023
Application expires
4 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 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.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    9 Nov

    Prior Approval - Single storey rear extensions up to 3m in height x 8m in depth and 2.7m in height to the…

    This applicationRefusedOutline5/2023/2267
  2. 2023
    3 Nov

    Certificate of lawfulness (proposed) - Single storey rear extensions, single storey side extension, and a…

    PendingCertificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Filed alongside5/2023/2232

Source: St Albans

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