St Columbas College King Harry Lane St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Aw
Approved on 27 January 2026
Council decision: PENDINGDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
T35 and T37 - 2 horse chestnut trees. Reduce lower half of each canopy of the branches overhanging the car park only by 2m from branch tips to give clearance for vehicles and to reduce the weight on the the limbs to help avoid branch failure. T4, T3, A1 a
- Received
- 12 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Verulam
- ReceivedReceived12 Dec
- ValidatedValidated15 Dec
- Consult.Consultation5 Jan
- TargetTarget Date5 Jan
- DecidedDecided27 Jan
Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at St Columbas College King Harry Lane St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Aw. St Albans has handled 1,557 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,255 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.
99% of trees 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 4AW
- Application type
- Tree works in conservation area
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 5 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 5 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 5 January 2026
- Application expires
- 25 January 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 41 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14561407
- Documents
- 2
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: St Albans - The Park and St Stephens Hill
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20242 Oct
Discharge of Condition 19 (tree protection) of planning permission 5/2021/0622
Discharge of Condition - ApprovedDischarge of conditions5/2024/1688 - 202420 Mar
Tree Number - T1 Tree Type - Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Approx. Diameter at 1.5m - 0.3-0.5m Approx. Height - 10m…
ApprovedTree works in conservation areaTP/2024/0159
Source: St Albans
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