39 Watling Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 2Py
Refused on 1 March 2024
Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Refused
Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Single storey side extension & conversion of garage
- Received
- 9 January 2024
- Ward
- Sopwell
- ReceivedReceived9 Jan
- ValidatedValidated10 Jan
- Consult.Consultation2 Feb
- TargetTarget Date2 Feb
- DecidedDecided1 Mar
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a single storey side extension at 39 Watling Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 2Py. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 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 77 applications across Sopwell. 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 2PY
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Central St Albans
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 January 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 2 February 2024
- Consultation end
- 2 February 2024
- Target decision date
- 2 February 2024
- Application expires
- 5 March 2024
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Ella Farrell
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12720119
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
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.
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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202624 Apr
Erection of garage at 39 Watling Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 2PY
DC3 Conditional PermissionApplication5/2026/0626 - 202512 Nov
Erection of garage at 39 Watling Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 2PY
WithdrawnApplication5/2025/2075 - No date
Proposed first floor side extensions, extension of roof over bay window to the ground floor front elevation…
RefusedApplication5/2024/1895 - No date
Proposed ground floor single storey front and side extension, proposed front and side roof extensions and…
DC3 Conditional PermissionApplication5/2025/0196
Source: St Albans
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