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Beaumont School Austen Way St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0XB

5/2025/2345Approved

Approved on 27 April 2026

Council decision: DC3 Conditional Permission2 conditions

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

Proposal

Demolition of 1no school building (Building EFAB) and erection 1no two- storey teaching block, 1no meter room building, with associated landscaping (including SEN Garden, hard and soft social spaces, external dining spaces and an outdoor gym), ground source heat pump and additional parking at Beaumont School Austen Way St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0XB

Submitted
23 December 2025
Ward
Hill End
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 125 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Beaumont School Austen Way St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0XB. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Hill End. We hold 2,081 applications in total for the AL4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
AL4 0XB
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
21 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Barker Parry Town

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    5 Jun

    Discharge of conditions 8 (demolition and construction management plan), 9 (surface water drainage) and 10…

    PendingDischarge of conditions5/2026/1092
  2. 2025
    23 Dec

    Demolition of 1no school building (Building EFAB) and erection 1no two- storey teaching block, 1no meter room…

    This applicationDC3 Conditional PermissionApplication5/2025/2345

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