Kinsbourne House The Common Kinsbourne Green Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 3PE Data via plota.co.uk

5/2026/1100 - CLP Approved

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Removal of the existing hipped roof over the south projection and part demolished east wall. Build of a single storey rear extension between the south projection and the Drawing Room wall to the east. Construct a hip… Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
8 Jun 2026
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Validated
3 Jul 2026
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Approved
26 Aug 2026

Approved on 26 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Site constraints 7

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Inside the Kinsbourne Green built-up area; Open access land about 22 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed.; Priority habitat about 50 m away: Lowland heathland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £2,975,000 in March 2021. Detached house, freehold.

15 March 2021£2,975,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
St Albans
Application type
CLP
Postcode
AL5 3PE
Received
8 Jun 2026
Validated
3 Jul 2026
Ward
Harpenden North & Rural
Parish
HARPENDEN RURAL
Case officer
Show
Target decision
24 Jul 2026
Decision
Certificate of Lawfulness Approved
Decision date
26 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects (Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects)

How this decision compares

Decided in 54 days from validation, 37 days faster than St Albans's median of 91 for demolitions. Approved, as 83% of demolitions here are.

21%decided within 8 weeks
83%approved
119decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by St Albans in the last twelve months, from validation. St Albans decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
322124PLN
Planning Portal ref
14967452
Comments by
24 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry
27 Aug 2026
St Albans
Planning Authority Score
1.1/10
Poor
#290 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

St Albans is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #285 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 64% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
St Albans decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #180 of 296
88%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #226 of 296
29%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #285 of 296
64%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #278 of 296
74%
Minor dwellings approved
130 decided (1-9 homes)
61%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
77%
Change of use approved
26 decided
1,411
Total decisions
184 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.