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5 Cavan Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 6HR

5/2025/2275FullApproved

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: DC3 Conditional Permission4 conditions

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

Proposal

Demolition of existing single storey attached garage, porch and outhouse and construction of part single, part two storey front, rear and side extension with rooflights and pitched roofs, solar panels, external insulated render to existing walls, replacement windows and alteration to front landscaping to accommodate two parking spaces at 5 Cavan Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 6HR

Submitted
15 December 2025
Ward
Batchwood
Agent
Lingwood Design
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 95 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 5 Cavan Drive St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 6HR. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 95 days, 6 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 65 applications across Batchwood. We hold 2,256 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

86% of full 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 6HR
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
6 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Lingwood Design
Architect profile
LINGWOOD DESIGN ARCHITECTS LIMITED

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.

© 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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