Sleapshyde Farm Sleapshyde Lane Smallford Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0SE

5/2025/0455Discharge of ConditionApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 April 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 (samples of materials) for planning permission 5/2024/0431 dated 26/11/2024 for Change of use and conversion of barns to Class C3 (residential) to create single dwelling with habitable roof accommodation, installation of rooflights and associated external alterations, parking and amenity space at Barns And Stables At Sleapshyde Farm Sleapshyde Lane Smallford Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0SE

Received: 13 March 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Colney Heath

ReceivedReceived13 Mar
ValidatedValidated14 Mar
Consult.Consultation11 Apr
TargetTarget Date11 Apr
DecidedDecided25 Apr

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Sleapshyde Farm Sleapshyde Lane Smallford Hertfordshire St Albans AL4 0SE. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the Sleapshyde conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 7 other applications 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: 14 March 2025
Consultation expiry: 11 April 2025
Consultation end: 11 April 2025
Target decision date: 11 April 2025
Application expires: 8 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13852867
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.

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

2025
13 Mar
Discharge of Condition 4 (samples of materials) for Listed Building consent 5/2024/0490
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside5/2025/0454
2025
13 Mar
Discharge of Condition 3 (samples of materials) for planning permission 5/2024/0431
This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions5/2025/0455

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: St Albans

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