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The Mansion 1 St Peters Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 3DH

5/2025/1873ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 March 2026

Council decision: Discharge of Condition - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 7 (details of roof terraces) of planning permission 5/2020/2463 dated 04/03/2021 for Partial demolition of ground floor, change of use of part ground, first and second floors from Class E (commercial, business and service) to Class C3 (residential) to create four flats and two, three storey townhouses, first floor extension with habitable roof accommodation and dormer windows, replacement of existing dormer windows, alterations to openings and associated works and repairs at The Mansion 1 St Peters Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 3DH

Submitted
9 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
Agent
Benchmark Architects
  1. Received9 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Mar

Decided in 146 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at The Mansion 1 St Peters Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 3DH. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 13 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across St Peters. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 postcode area.

90% of conditions 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 3DH
Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
13 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Benchmark Architects
Architect profile
BENCHMARK ARCHITECTS LTD

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 - The Commercial Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 3 St Peters StreetOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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
    9 Oct

    Discharge of Conditions 5 (details of services, finishes and insulation) and 6 (details of roof terraces) of…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside5/2025/1856
  2. 2025
    9 Oct

    Discharge of Condition 7 (details of roof terraces) of planning permission 5/2020/2463

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions5/2025/1873

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