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Barns And Stables At Sleapshyde Farm Sleapshyde Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire

5/2024/0490Listed Buildings ApplicationsApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 26 November 2024

Council decision: DC10 Listed Building Conditional ConsentDelegated (officer decision)11 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed Building consent - Change of use and conversion of barns to Class C3 (residential) to create single dwelling with habitable roof accommodation, installation of rooflights and associated external alterations, parking and amenity space

Received
11 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received11 Mar
  2. Validated12 Mar
  3. Consult.2 Aug
  4. Target2 Aug
  5. Decided26 Nov

Decided in 259 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Barns And Stables At Sleapshyde Farm Sleapshyde Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire. St Albans has handled 375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 260 days, 29 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Colney Heath.

91% of heritage 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

Application type
Listed Buildings Applications
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 March 2024
Consultation expiry
2 August 2024
Consultation end
2 August 2024
Target decision date
2 August 2024
Application expires
6 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
143 days

Publicity

Last advertised
28 March 2024

Additional information

Documents
49

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: St Albans - The Commercial Centre
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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.

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