Abbey Gate House 4 Abbey Mill Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4HD

5/2025/2212HeritageApproved

Listed building consent

Approved on 4 February 2026

Council decision: DC10 Listed Building Conditional ConsentDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed Building consent - Installation of 2no. extract vents with external wall vents, 1no. extract with external soffit vent, and 1no. soil vent pipe penetration through existing external wall, to connect to existing soil vent pipe at Abbey Gate House 4 Abbey Mill Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4HD

Submitted: 3 December 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Verulam
Agent: Anna Hodgson Savills (UK) Ltd

ReceivedSubmitted3 Dec
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided4 Feb

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Abbey Gate House 4 Abbey Mill Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4HD. St Albans has handled 375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,256 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

91% of heritage 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 4HD
Application type: Heritage
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry: 24 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent: Anna Hodgson Savills (UK) Ltd

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Conservation area: St Albans - Abbey Mill Lane
Listed building: Grade II*: Abbey Gate HouseOn or next to this site
Article 4 direction: Verulam and Fishpool Street
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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.

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9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: St Albans

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