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22 Old Orchard Park Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al2 2Qb

5/2023/2580HouseholderApproved

Approved on 12 March 2024

Council decision: DC3 Conditional Permission

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

Proposal

Ground floor wall demolition and loft conversion with two rear dormer windows (resubmission following refusal of 15/2023/1235)

Received
20 December 2023
Ward
Park Street
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated21 Dec
  3. Consult.17 Feb
  4. Target17 Feb
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 82 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 22 Old Orchard Park Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al2 2Qb. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 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 82 applications across Park Street. We hold 1,041 applications in total for the AL2 postcode area.

86% of full 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 2QB
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Stephen

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 December 2023
Consultation expiry
17 February 2024
Consultation end
17 February 2024
Target decision date
17 February 2024
Application expires
14 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
58 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 January 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12591295
Documents
18

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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