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Land To Rear Of Burston Garden Centre North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

5/2025/2187ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 January 2026

Council decision: Discharge of Condition - Approved

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

Proposal

Notice of an application to discharge a planning obligation - Submission and Approval of Communal Facilities Scheme under Schedule 1, Part 1, Clause 2 of the Agreement of S106 agreement dated 28/01/2022 relating to 5/2020/3022 for Demolition of all existing buildings, structures and hardstanding and redevelopment of the site to provide a new retirement community comprising 80 assisted living apartments with community facilities and 44 bungalows together with associated access, bridleway extension, landscaping, amenity space, car parking and associated and ancillary works at Land To Rear Of Burston Garden Centre North Orbital Road Chiswell Green Hertfordshire St Albans

Submitted
1 December 2025
Ward
Park Street
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land To Rear Of Burston Garden Centre North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Park Street.

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

Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
16 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
David Phillips DPV Consult

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
  • 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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