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306 Watford Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire Al2 3Dw

5/2023/2435Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 January 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Approved

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Hip to gable loft conversion Comprising of one en-suite bedroom with rear dormer window and two front rooflights

Received
1 December 2023
Ward
St Stephen
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Dec
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided18 Jan

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 306 Watford Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire Al2 3Dw. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 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 105 applications across St Stephen. We hold 1,041 applications in total for the AL2 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
AL2 3DW
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Stephen

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2023
Consultation expiry
29 December 2023
Consultation end
29 December 2023
Target decision date
29 December 2023
Application expires
28 January 2024

Planning decision

Case officer
Ola Ope
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12564674

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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