St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN

5/2025/2175Discharge of ConditionApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 December 2025

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

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

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 18 (written scheme of archaeological work) of planning application 5/2024/1326 dated 27/11/2024 for Variation of Conditions 1 (reserved matters), 4 (approved parameter plans), 12 (highway details), 18 (archaeological WSI), 22 (SUDS details), 25 (land contamination investigation) and 26 (land contamination and remediation strategy) of planning permission 5/2023/1685 dated 02/02/2024 for Variation of Condition 4 (reserved matters parameters) of planning permission 5/2022/1518 dated 02/08/2023 for Outline application (all matters reserved) - Part demolition of hospital buildings, construction of two new buildings, two infill extensions and new electrical switch room. External works associated with refurbishment of existing buildings. Associated parking, access and landscape works at St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN

Received: 28 November 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Batchwood

ReceivedReceived28 Nov
ValidatedValidated1 Dec
Consult.Consultation31 Dec
TargetTarget Date31 Dec
DecidedDecided18 Dec

Decided in 17 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 25 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Batchwood. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 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: AL3 5PN
Application type: Discharge of Condition
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 December 2025
Consultation expiry: 31 December 2025
Consultation end: 31 December 2025
Target decision date: 31 December 2025
Application expires: 25 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14486817
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.

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.

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

2025
28 Nov
Discharge of Condition 18 (written scheme of archaeological work) of planning application 5/2024/1326
This applicationDischarge of Condition - PartialDischarge of conditions5/2025/2175
2025
28 Nov
Discharge of Condition 20 (noise assessment) of planning application 5/2024/1326
Discharge of Condition - PartialDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside5/2025/2176

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Source: St Albans

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