St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN
Approved on 7 May 2026
Council decision: Discharge of Condition - Approved
Proposal
Discharge of Condition 21a (surface water drainage ) of planning permission 5/2025/1131 dated 13/01/2026 for Variation of Conditions 2 (approved plans), 3 (materials), 4 (details of roof plant screening), 5 (plant equipment), 12 (plant noise limits), 14 (landscape details), 21 (SUDS details), 22 (SUDS maintenance and management plan), 23 (SUDS verification), and 24 (flood risk) of planning permission 2/2023/0982 dated 01/11/2023 for Demolition of existing theatres building and construction of a new elective care hub, including associated plant equipment, landscaping and parking of planning permission (as amended by 5/2024/2030 dated 06/12/2024) at St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN
- Submitted
- 9 February 2026
- Ward
- Batchwood
- ReceivedSubmitted9 Feb
- ValidatedValidated
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided7 May
Decided in 87 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to vary a condition at St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN. St Albans has handled 688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 4 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 25 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Batchwood. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.
90% of conditions 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 5PN
- Application type
- Conditions
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Consultation expiry
- 11 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- London Milly McDermott BDP
Site constraints
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.
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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.
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