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4a Ramsbury Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1SL

5/2025/1232Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 21 August 2025

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Reinstatement of three flats into one single dwelling at 4a Ramsbury Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1SL

Received
26 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sopwell
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated27 Jun
  3. Consult.15 Aug
  4. Target15 Aug
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 4a Ramsbury Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1SL. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Sopwell. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 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
AL1 1SL
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 June 2025
Consultation expiry
15 August 2025
Consultation end
15 August 2025
Target decision date
15 August 2025
Application expires
21 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14130100
Documents
7

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 - Alma Road and Priory 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.

Source: St Albans

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