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Highfield Farm Highfield Lane Tyttenhanger Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0RL

5/2025/0374Prior Approval - Agriculture to range of usesRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 23 April 2025

Council decision: COU Prior approval required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Approval - Change of use of agricultural barn to Leisure and Recreational use (Class F2(c)) at Highfield Farm Highfield Lane Tyttenhanger Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0RL

Received
3 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colney Heath
  1. Received3 Mar
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.4 Apr
  4. Target4 Apr
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Highfield Farm Highfield Lane Tyttenhanger Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0RL. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Colney Heath. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 postcode area.

71% of outline 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 0RL
Application type
Prior Approval - Agriculture to range of uses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colney Heath

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2025
Consultation expiry
4 April 2025
Consultation end
4 April 2025
Target decision date
4 April 2025
Application expires
27 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
DIVERSIFARM LTD

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
12 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
14

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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