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3 Ye Olde House Sleapshyde Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Se

5/2024/0120HouseholderRefused

Refused on 21 June 2024

Council decision: DC4 Refusal

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

Proposal

Two storey side and rear extensions

Received
10 January 2024
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received10 Jan
  2. Validated11 Jan
  3. Consult.12 May
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided21 Jun

Decided in 162 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at 3 Ye Olde House Sleapshyde Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Se. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 163 days, 15 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the Sleapshyde conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Colney Heath. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 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
AL4 0SE
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 January 2024
Consultation expiry
24 February 2024
Consultation end
12 May 2024
Target decision date
12 May 2024
Application expires
6 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
1 February 2024

Additional information

Documents
10

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: Sleapshyde
  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    10 Jan

    Two storey side and rear extensions

    This applicationRefusedFull5/2024/0120
  2. 2024
    10 Jan

    Two storey side and rear extensions

    PendingListed building consentFiled alongside5/2024/0121

Source: St Albans

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