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Katherine Warington School Lower Luton Road Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 5FH

5/2024/1866Approved

Approved on 26 August 2026

Council decision: DC3 Conditional Permission10 conditions

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

Proposal

Proposed two storey Sixth form teaching block, providing three classrooms and WC's on the ground floor and Sixth Form social and study on the first floor with sloped access to the new decking new decking area within the existing gabion wall to the south of the proposed building at Katherine Warington School Lower Luton Road Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 5FH

Received
29 October 2024
Ward
Harpenden East
Agent
P Pawlik Barker Associates (Essex) Ltd
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.27 Mar
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 665 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Katherine Warington School Lower Luton Road Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 5FH. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. This one was decided in 665 days, 87 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 87 applications across Harpenden East. We hold 3,774 applications in total for the AL5 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
AL5 5FH
Parish
Harpenden Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2024
Consultation end
27 March 2025
Target decision date
27 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
P Pawlik Barker Associates (Essex) Ltd

Planning decision

Case officer
George Kent

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: St Albans
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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