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Samuel Ryder Academy Drakes Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 5AR

5/2025/1879Discharge of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 December 2025

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

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

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 4 (construction management plan) of planning permission 5/2025/0988 dated 15/09/2025 for Proposed two storey extensions to sides of Sixth form and Music block. Proposed new door opening to create link corridor to East side of Gymnasium, new door opening with staircase to Computer room, insertion of rooflights and demolition of existing store room at Samuel Ryder Academy Drakes Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 5AR

Received
13 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cunningham
  1. Received13 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.28 Nov
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Samuel Ryder Academy Drakes Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 5AR. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Cunningham. 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 5AR
Application type
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Consultation expiry
28 November 2025
Consultation end
28 November 2025
Target decision date
28 November 2025
Application expires
8 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14387858
Documents
7

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    13 Oct

    Discharge of Condition 4 (construction management plan) of planning permission 5/2025/0988

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions5/2025/1879
  2. No date

    Proposed two storey extensions to sides of Sixth form and Music block. Proposed new door opening to create…

    DC3 Conditional PermissionApplicationPart of5/2025/0988

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