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The Beacon 26 King Harry Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4AU

5/2024/1385(Minor) All Other DevelopmentsApproved

Approved on 15 May 2025

Council decision: DC3 Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

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

Proposal

New staff block adjacent to existing building linked with an external covered walkway at The Beacon 26 King Harry Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4AU

Received
12 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Verulam
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated13 Aug
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 275 days

About this application

This is a planning application at The Beacon 26 King Harry Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4AU. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. This one was decided in 276 days, 31 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
AL3 4AU
Application type
(Minor) All Other Developments
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 August 2024
Consultation expiry
22 April 2025
Consultation end
22 April 2025
Target decision date
22 April 2025
Application expires
7 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
ROBERTS LIMBRICK LIMITED

Planning decision

Statutory period
252 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13195126
Documents
30

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 Park and St Stephens Hill
  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    24 Jan

    T003 - 1 x Pine next to driveway fell to ground level

    ApprovedTree works in conservation areaTP/2024/0045

Source: St Albans

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