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26a Highfield Road Sandridge Hertfordshire AL4 9BX

5/2025/2189OutlineApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 February 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Single storey rear extension at 26a Highfield Road Sandridge Hertfordshire AL4 9BX

Submitted
1 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sandridge & Wheathampstead
Agent
Divine Design
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Feb

Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 26a Highfield Road Sandridge Hertfordshire AL4 9BX. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Sandridge & Wheathampstead. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 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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Application details

Postcode
AL4 9BX
Application type
Outline
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
26 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Divine Design

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: St Albans
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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