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97 Oakwood Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0UL

5/2025/1408Prior Notification HouseholderRefused
Householder

Refused on 2 September 2025

Council decision: NCS Prior approval required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Notification - Single storey rear extension 2.70m in height x 5.50m in depth with 2.70m height to eaves at 97 Oakwood Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0UL

Received
23 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hill End
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated23 Jul
  3. Consult.29 Aug
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided2 Sep

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 97 Oakwood Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0UL. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Hill End. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 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
AL4 0UL
Application type
Prior Notification Householder
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 July 2025
Consultation expiry
29 August 2025
Consultation end
29 August 2025
Target decision date
29 August 2025
Application expires
2 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
TOTAL DESIGN STRUCTURAL LTD

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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