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First Floor And Second Floor The Mansion 1 St Peters Street Hertfordshire St Albans AL1 3DH

5/2026/0514HeritageApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 11 May 2026

Council decision: DC10 Listed Building Conditional Consent6 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed Building consent - removal of existing timbers and insertion of new steelwork required to support the second floor and roof, and removal of existing tie beams and replacement with steel purlin struts (variation of Listed Building consent 5/2023/2180 dated 08/05/2024 for Minor internal changes to the design of previously approved proposals to include demolition of two existing internal walls to add in space to the layout for Flat 1 and Flat 2, retention of a part of existing opening to corridor access to Flats 3 and 4, and removal of two small windows on the external wall in Flat 3 on the first floor, existing dormer window to be retained, repaired, and made good in the store space for Flat 1 on the second floor, and introduction of AOV in roof for stairs facing Spencer Street) at First Floor And Second Floor The Mansion 1 St Peters Street Hertfordshire St Albans AL1 3DH

Submitted
16 March 2026
Ward
St Peters
Agent
Benchmark Architects
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at First Floor And Second Floor The Mansion 1 St Peters Street Hertfordshire St Albans AL1 3DH. St Albans has handled 375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across St Peters. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the AL1 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
AL1 3DH
Application type
Heritage
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Consultation expiry
2 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Benchmark Architects
Architect profile
BENCHMARK ARCHITECTS LTD

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: St Albans - The Commercial Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 3 St Peters StreetOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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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