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53 Dalton Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5QH

5/2025/0032HouseholderApproved

Approved on 2 April 2025

Council decision: DC3 Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) to allow adjustments to the dimensions of the dormer window 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 floor rear elevation with new rear steps and addition of rooflight over kitchen at 53 Dalton Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5QH

Received
9 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
  1. Received9 Jan
  2. Validated10 Jan
  3. Consult.1 Mar
  4. Target1 Mar
  5. Decided2 Apr

Decided in 82 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at 53 Dalton Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5QH. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 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 181 applications across St Peters. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

86% of full 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
Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 January 2025
Consultation expiry
1 March 2025
Consultation end
1 March 2025
Target decision date
1 March 2025
Application expires
6 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
SELC ARCHITECTURE LTD

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13670203
Documents
19

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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