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Melrose 3 York Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 4PL

5/2025/0368HouseholderApproved

Approved on 11 June 2025

Council decision: DC3 Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Part loft conversion including front and rear facing dormers, installation of 4no. conservation type rooflights, replacement of existing tiled roof with new tiles to match existing, replacement of all ground and first floor windows with new uPVC Conservation type sash windows, replacement of metal railings to first floor balcony with new timber railings, removal of 2no. windows to east elevation and infill with brickwork to match existing and re-building of existing front boundary wall at Melrose 3 York Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 4PL

Received
5 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clarence
  1. Received5 Mar
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.26 Apr
  4. Target26 Apr
  5. Decided11 Jun

Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at Melrose 3 York Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 4PL. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer 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 89 applications across Clarence. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 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
AL1 4PL
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2025
Consultation expiry
26 April 2025
Consultation end
26 April 2025
Target decision date
26 April 2025
Application expires
30 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13827420
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 - Clarence Park
  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    23 Jun

    Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) to vary front and rear dormers to incorporate a pitched roof…

    DC3 Conditional PermissionVariation of conditions (s73)5/2025/1194
  2. 2025
    28 Mar

    Part loft conversion including front and rear facing dormers, installation of 4no. conservation type…

    This applicationDC3 Conditional PermissionFull5/2025/0368

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