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27 Mount Pleasant St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4QU

5/2025/1810Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 2 December 2025

1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - There is a pathway that passes between my property (27 Mount Pleasant St Albans AL3 4QU) and my neighbours at No. 29. This runs from Mount Pleasant down to Fishpool Street. I wish to create an off-road hard-standing parking space at the bottom of my garden and to use this pathway as access to that parking space, through some sliding solid garden gates at 27 Mount Pleasant St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4QU

  1. Received
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Dec

About this application

This is a planning application at 27 Mount Pleasant St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4QU. St Albans has handled 12,346 applications of this type. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,256 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. It is the responsibility of the applicant to describe the proposal with sufficient clarity and precision to enable a local planning authority to understand exactly what is involved. Insufficient information has been provided in order to determine whether or not the proposed hardsurfacing would comply with Class F of Part 1 and the means of enclosure with Class A and Class B of, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended). A Certificate of Lawfulness can therefore not be granted. Christine Traill Strategic Director – Community and Place Delivery Dated 02/12/2025 First Schedule (Development/Use) - Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - There is a pathway that passes between my property (27 Mount Pleasant St Albans AL3 4QU) and my neighbours at No. 29. This runs from Mount Pleasant down to Fishpool Street. I wish to create an off-road hard- standing parking space at the bottom of my garden and to use this pathway as access to that parking space, through some sliding solid garden gates Second Schedule (Location) - 27 Mount Pleasant St Albans Hertfordshire

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
AL3 4QU

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

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 - Mount Pleasant
  • 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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