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Gustard Wood Nursery Ballslough Hill Gustard Wood Wheathampstead Hertfordshire Al4 8La

5/2023/2600Discharge of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 April 2024

Council decision: Discharge of Condition - Approved

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

Proposal

Discharge of Conditions 3 (samples of materials), 5 (details of hard and soft landscape works), 6 (details of soft landscape works) 9 (existing and proposed slab levels) and 10 (installation of external lighting) of planning permission 5/2022/2222 dated 0

Received
22 December 2023
Ward
Sandridge & Wheathampstead
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated27 Dec
  3. Consult.17 Jan
  4. Target17 Jan
  5. Decided10 Apr

Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Gustard Wood Nursery Ballslough Hill Gustard Wood Wheathampstead Hertfordshire Al4 8La. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the Gustard Wood conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Sandridge & Wheathampstead. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 postcode area.

90% of conditions 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 8LA
Application type
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wheathampstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 December 2023
Consultation expiry
17 January 2024
Consultation end
17 January 2024
Target decision date
17 January 2024
Application expires
20 February 2024

Planning decision

Case officer
Lucy Pedder
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12367183
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.

  • Conservation area: Gustard Wood
  • Green belt: St Albans
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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.

Source: St Albans

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