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53 Dalton Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 5Qh

5/2024/2154Non Materials AmendmentRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 23 December 2024

Council decision: Non Material Amendment RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Non Material Amendment - Minor adjustment to the height of the dormer roof following construction of planning permission 5/2022/2049 dated 23/11/2022 for Loft conversion with rear dormer window, front and rear rooflights, alteration to openings to ground

Received
9 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
  1. Received9 Dec
  2. Validated10 Dec
  3. Consult.3 Jan
  4. Target3 Jan
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 13 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 53 Dalton Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 5Qh. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across St Peters. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

55% of amendment 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
AL3 5QH
Application type
Non Materials Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 December 2024
Consultation expiry
3 January 2025
Consultation end
3 January 2025
Target decision date
3 January 2025
Application expires
6 January 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13619494
Documents
5

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 - Folly Lane, Garden Fields and the Old Hospital
  • 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.

Source: St Albans

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