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Moor Mill Smug Oak Lane Bricket Wood Hertfordshire AL2 3PN

5/2025/2207AmendmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 27 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 (existing) - Use of the premises as a standalone restaurant falling within Use Class E 'Commercial, Business and Service' of the Use Classes Order without reference to associated or ancillary hotels or residential use at Moor Mill Smug Oak Lane Bricket Wood Hertfordshire AL2 3PN

Submitted
3 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Park Street
Agent
Walsingham Planning
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Moor Mill Smug Oak Lane Bricket Wood Hertfordshire AL2 3PN. St Albans has handled 324 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Park Street. We hold 1,041 applications in total for the AL2 postcode area.

55% of amendment 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
AL2 3PN
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
7 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Walsingham Planning
Applicant company

Whitbread PLC

Company number 04120344

Status
Active
Type
Public limited company
Incorporated
1 Dec 2000 (25 years old)
Nature of business
Activities of head offices
Registered office
Porz Avenue Dunstable

4 other planning applications by this company in Leeds, Cairngorms and Lambeth.

  • 26/02957/DET · Lambeth · Phoenix House 10 Wandsworth Road London SW8 2LL
  • 26/04288/COND · Leeds · Verity House 6 Canal Wharf Holbeck Leeds LS11 5BQ
  • 26/9/00121/MOD · Leeds · Verity House 6 Canal Wharf Holbeck Leeds LS11 5BQ
  • 2025/0310/DET · Cairngorms · Premier Inn Grampian Road Aviemore PH22 1PT
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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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