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13 Lynton Avenue St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 5Pd

5/2024/1685Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 5 December 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) - Hip to gable loft conversion with rear dormer, side elevation window and front rooflights following no construction of loft permitted in 2019 reference 5/2019/1981.

Received
2 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cunningham
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Oct
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 13 Lynton Avenue St Albans Hertfordshire Al1 5Pd. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Cunningham. 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 5PD
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2024
Target decision date
3 October 2024
Application expires
27 November 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13383443
Documents
7

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.

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