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194 Riverside Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1SF

5/2025/1354HouseholderApproved

Approved on 13 November 2025

Council decision: DC3 Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

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

Proposal

Two storey side extension, single storey rear extension, loft conversion, front and rear facing roof lights, extension to the existing rear patio and new access and extension to existing cellar at 194 Riverside Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1SF

Received
15 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sopwell
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 120 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 194 Riverside Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1SF. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 9 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area. 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.

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 1SF
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2025
Consultation expiry
2 October 2025
Consultation end
2 October 2025
Target decision date
2 October 2025
Application expires
9 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
78 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14177246
Documents
30

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    30 Jan

    Discharge of Conditions 5 (vehicular access) and 6 (construction method statement) of planning permission…

    PendingDischarge of conditions5/2026/0170
  2. 2025
    15 Jul

    Two storey side extension, single storey rear extension, loft conversion, front and rear facing roof lights…

    This applicationDC3 Conditional PermissionFull5/2025/1354

Source: St Albans

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