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20 The Park St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 4Ry

5/2024/0491Prior Notification HouseholderRefused
Householder

Refused on 25 April 2024

Council decision: NCS Prior approval required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Approval - Single storey rear extension 2.97m in height x 8m in depth and 2.83m in height to the eaves

Received
20 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Marshalswick West
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided25 Apr

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 20 The Park St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 4Ry. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Marshalswick West. 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 4RY
Application type
Prior Notification Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2024
Consultation expiry
16 April 2024
Consultation end
16 April 2024
Target decision date
16 April 2024
Application expires
29 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
40 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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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