Land Rear Of East Lodge Oaklands Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0HU Data via plota.co.uk

5/2026/0856 - MIND Approved
New homes

Proposal

Reserved Matters (all matters) following planning permission dated 04/11/2025 for Outline application (all matters reserved) - Construction of a self-build/custom-build detached dwelling and detached garage Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
30 Apr 2026
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Validated
1 May 2026
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Approved
26 Aug 2026

Approved on 26 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 9 Sept 2026

Documents

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Associated applications 2

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Site constraints 6

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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Tree preservation order
Consent is needed before work on protected trees.
Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.
Public footpath about 24 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 7 m away: Deciduous woodland; Inside the Smallford built-up area; 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 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.

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Important details

Council
St Albans
Application type
MIND
Postcode
AL4 0HU
Received
30 Apr 2026
Validated
1 May 2026
Ward
Colney Heath
Parish
COLNEY HEATH
Case officer
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Target decision
20 Jun 2026
Decision
DC7 Reserved matters - Conditional approval
Decision date
26 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
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How this decision compares

Decided in 117 days from validation, about the council's usual 117 days. Approved, as 70% of new homes here are.

23%decided within 8 weeks
70%approved
6%go to committee

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
321335PLN
Planning Portal ref
14899666
Comments by
20 Jun 2026
Site or press notice
28 May 2026
Statutory expiry
25 Jun 2026

Historical activity at this location

5 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2018 Refused
East Lodge Oaklands Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Hu
Construction of two, three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings with associated landscaping, p…
5/2018/1813
2018 Refused
East Lodge Oaklands Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Hu
Sub-division of the plot and construction of two, three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings f…
5/2018/0513
2017 Refused
Land R/O East Lodge Oaklands Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire
Outline application (all matters reserved) - Detached dwelling with detached garage
5/2017/2118
2016 Approved
East Lodge Oaklands Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Hu
Discharge of Conditions 3 (samples of materials), 7 (tree safeguarding), 9 (hard and soft…
5/2016/3563
2016 Approved
East Lodge Oaklands Lane Smallford St Albans Hertfordshire Al4 0Hu
Discharge of Conditions 3 (samples of materials), 7 (tree safeguarding), 9 (hard and soft…
5/2016/3563
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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings