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185 St Albans Road Watford WD24 5BD

12/00014/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 February 2012

Council decision: Conditional Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from drop in clinic centre to retail

Received
9 January 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Callowland
  1. Received9 Jan
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.7 Feb
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided10 Feb

Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 185 St Albans Road Watford WD24 5BD. Watford has handled 593 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than Watford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Callowland. We hold 538 applications in total for the WD24 postcode area.

86% of amendment applications at Watford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WD24 5BD
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2012
Consultation expiry
7 February 2012
Neighbour consultation start
17 January 2012
Neighbour consultation end
7 February 2012
Last date for comments
7 February 2012
Target decision date
5 March 2012
Decision issued
16 February 2012
Application expires
5 March 2012
Permission expires
16 February 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
1

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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: Watford

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