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26 Midway St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4BQ

5/2025/2101Prior Notification HouseholderRefused
Householder

Refused on 23 December 2025

Council decision: NCS Prior approval required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Prior Notification - Single storey rear extension 5m depth x and 3m in height x 3m in height to the eaves at 26 Midway St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4BQ

Received
14 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Verulam
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.19 Dec
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 26 Midway St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4BQ. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 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 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 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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Why it was refused

  1. Prior approval is refused as, when considered under criterion (j)(iii) of Class A, Part 1, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 [as amended] as the proposed extension would extend beyond an original side wall of the dwellinghouse and have a width greater than half the width of the original dwellinghouse, contrary to the requirements of criterion (j)(iii). Formal planning permission would therefore be required.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
AL3 4BQ
Application type
Prior Notification Householder
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Consultation expiry
19 December 2025
Consultation end
19 December 2025
Target decision date
19 December 2025
Application expires
25 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
SOUP ARCHITECTS LTD

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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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