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116 Cambridge Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 5Lg

5/2023/2366Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 January 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Approved

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Construction of an outbuilding comprising garden store and hobby room

Received
22 November 2023
Ward
Clarence
  1. Received22 Nov
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Dec
  5. Decided17 Jan

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 116 Cambridge Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 5Lg. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Clarence. 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 5LG
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2023
Target decision date
11 December 2023
Application expires
4 February 2024

Planning decision

Case officer
William Durston
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12623279
Documents
4

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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