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Little Bushes Sleapshyde Smallford Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0SE

5/2025/0260Discharge of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 11 July 2025

Council decision: Discharge of Condition - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 3 (bat mitigation strategy and method statement) of planning permission 5/2022/2539 allowed at appeal dated 22/01/2024 for Demolition of existing dwelling and outbuildings. Construction of new dwelling (including residential annexe). Alterations to access and removal and pollarding of trees at Little Bushes Sleapshyde Smallford Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0SE

Received
17 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated18 Feb
  3. Consult.14 Mar
  4. Target14 Mar
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 143 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Little Bushes Sleapshyde Smallford Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0SE. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 144 days, 13 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the Sleapshyde conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Colney Heath. We hold 2,082 applications in total for the AL4 postcode area.

90% of conditions 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
AL4 0SE
Application type
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 February 2025
Consultation expiry
14 March 2025
Consultation end
14 March 2025
Target decision date
14 March 2025
Application expires
14 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
AT DESIGN (WELWYN) LTD

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13784565
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: Sleapshyde
  • Green belt: St Albans
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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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