34 Gustard Wood Wheathampstead Hertfordshire AL4 8RR
Approved on 12 September 2025
Council decision: DC3 Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) to widen first floor rear extension to enable repositioning of a bedroom to the rear for more daylight of planning permission 5/2024/2247 dated 17/04/2025 for Erection of a first floor rear extension, single storey rear extension, and a dormer window to replace existing roof lights at 34 Gustard Wood Wheathampstead Hertfordshire AL4 8RR
- Received
- 18 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Sandridge & Wheathampstead
- ReceivedReceived18 Jul
- ValidatedValidated21 Jul
- Consult.Consultation6 Sep
- TargetTarget Date6 Sep
- DecidedDecided12 Sep
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 34 Gustard Wood Wheathampstead Hertfordshire AL4 8RR. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Gustard Wood conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Sandridge & Wheathampstead. We hold 2,082 applications in total for the AL4 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
- AL4 8RR
- Application type
- Householder
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wheathampstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 July 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 6 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 6 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 September 2025
- Application expires
- 14 September 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Architect profile
- MOHNS & SANDERS LIMITED
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 14 August 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14186608
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Gustard Wood
- Green belt: St Albans
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, 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.
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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202620 Jun
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ApprovedCertificate of Lawfulness - (proposed)5/2025/1831
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