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2 Townsend Lane Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 2QE

5/2025/1464Non Materials AmendmentRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 22 August 2025

Council decision: Non Material Amendment RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment - Updates to fenestration, including changing the rear roof lights to dormer windows to planning permission 5/2023/1717 dated 15/03/2024 for Single storey front and side extensions, part single, part two storey rear extensions, partial garage conversion to habitable accommodation, raising of ridge height to facilitate loft conversion to habitable accommodation with front and rear rooflights and alterations to openings at 2 Townsend Lane Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 2QE

Received
4 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harpenden West
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated5 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Aug
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 17 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 2 Townsend Lane Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 2QE. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 18 days, 5 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the Harpenden conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 196 applications across Harpenden West. We hold 3,774 applications in total for the AL5 postcode area.

55% of amendment 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
AL5 2QE
Application type
Non Materials Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harpenden Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 August 2025
Target decision date
5 August 2025
Application expires
1 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
CRAIG LAMBERT ASSOCIATES LIMITED

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14224915
Documents
6

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: Harpenden
  • 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. 2025
    4 Aug

    Non-Material Amendment - Updates to fenestration, including changing the rear roof lights to dormer windows…

    This applicationRefusedNon-material amendment5/2025/1464
  2. 2023
    11 Aug

    Single storey front and side extensions, part single, part two storey rear extensions, partial garage…

    PendingHouseholderPart of5/2023/1717

Source: St Albans

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