St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN

5/2026/0313Approved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 21 April 2026

Council decision: DC3 Conditional Permission3 conditions

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

Proposal

Variation of Conditions 1 (approved plans), 2 (details of Materials), 3 (plant screening) of planning permission 5/2024/1447 dated 11/12/2024 for Submission of Reserved Matters (details of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) relating to the Community Diagnostics Centre Phase 1 development for a proposed extension to the existing Runcie Wing with access stairs and fenced enclosure at roof level of planning permission 5/2024/1326 dated 27/11/24 for Variation of Conditions 1 (reserved matters), 4 (approved parameter plans), 12 (highway details), 18 (archaeological WSI), 22 (SUDS details), 25 (land contamination investigation) and 26 (land contamination and remediation strategy) of planning permission 5/2023/1685 dated 02/02/2024 for Variation of Condition 4 (reserved matters parameters) of planning permission 5/2022/1518 dated 02/08/2023 for Outline application (all matters reserved) - Part demolition of hospital buildings, construction of two new buildings, two infill extensions and new electrical switch room. External works associated with refurbishment of existing buildings. Associated parking, access and landscape works. at St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN

Submitted: 18 February 2026
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Batchwood
Agent: Building Design

ReceivedSubmitted18 Feb
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided21 Apr

Decided in 62 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 5PN. St Albans has handled 12,340 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days 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.

Application details

Postcode: AL3 5PN
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry: 11 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent: Building Design

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.

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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20 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: St Albans

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