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The Old Electricity Works Campfield Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 5HT

5/2024/0387Refused

Refused on 4 April 2025

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

Proposal

Notice of an application to modify planning obligations of Schedule 2 'Affordable Housing' to allow the provision of an Affordable Housing Contribution and remove the requirement to provide 5 Affordable Housing Units of Section 106 Agreement dated 17/06/2021 relating to 5/2019/3164 for Retention of northern elevation to the Old Electricity Works building and adjoining facade of the warehouse building and demolition of all other existing buildings and construction of new buildings between two and six storeys in height to provide 107 flats (64 x 1 bed, 31 x 2 bed, 12 x 3 bed), 499 sqm of office floor space and associated parking, landscaping and access works at The Old Electricity Works Campfield Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 5HT

  1. Received
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Apr

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at The Old Electricity Works Campfield Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 5HT. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Clarence. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
AL1 5HT

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

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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