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St Albans School Abbey Gateway St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4HB

5/2025/1086Approved

Approved on 20 August 2025

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

Proposal

Installation of photovoltaic cells on to the Sports Centre roof, as well as associated cabling, cable trays, interverters and fittings at St Albans School Abbey Gateway St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4HB

  1. Received
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Aug

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at St Albans School Abbey Gateway St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4HB. St Albans has handled 12,346 applications of this type. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,256 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
AL3 4HB

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

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 - Fishpool Street and St Michaels Village
  • Listed building: Grade II: St Albans School Hall BlockOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Verulam and Fishpool Street
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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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