St Germains Barn Adjacent To Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 4SN Data via plota.co.uk

5/2025/2265 - CON Decided
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Discharge of Conditions 7 (written scheme of investigation) and 8 (competent persons) of listed building consent dated 14/03/2025 for Change of use and conversion of barn into a theatre space with associated alterations Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
11 Dec 2025
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Validated
12 Dec 2025
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Discharge of Condition - Partial
20 Feb 2026

Discharge of Condition - Partial on 20 Feb 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents

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Associated applications 3

Site constraints 6

Scheduled monument: Verulamium, site of
Scheduled monument consent is needed for any work to it, separate from planning permission.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
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.
Read the government guidance ↗
St Albans - Verulamium conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3

Checked on 2 November 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.

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Important details

Council
St Albans
Application type
CON
Postcode
AL3 4SN
Received
11 Dec 2025
Validated
12 Dec 2025
Ward
Verulam
Case officer
Show
Target decision
19 Feb 2026
Decision
Discharge of Condition - Partial
Decision date
20 Feb 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Show

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
318804PLN
Planning Portal ref
14539393
Comments by
19 Feb 2026
Site or press notice
1 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
5 Feb 2026

Historical activity at this location

16 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025
Change of use and conversion of barn into a theatre space with associated alterations
5/2025/1586
2025
Change of use and conversion of barn into a theatre space with associated alterations
5/2025/1586
2024 Refused
Change of use and conversion of barn into a theatre space with associated alterations
5/2024/1478
2024 Approved
Listed Building Consent - Change of use and conversion of barn into a theatre space with…
5/2024/1483
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2024 Approved
Inn On The Park Verulamium Park St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Decommissioning and removal of existing thermal panel on pitched roof, and installation o…
5/2024/1110
2022 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Replacement of single glazed and outdated double glazed units with new timber double glaz…
5/2022/0252
2022 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Replacement of single glazed and outdated double glazed units with new timber double glaz…
5/2022/0252
2021 Refused
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Replacement of single glazed and outdated ineffici…
5/2021/3530
2021 Refused
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Replacement of single glazed and outdated ineffici…
5/2021/3530
2020 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Installation of air conditioning unit to rear
5/2020/0561
2020 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
Installation of air conditioning unit to rear
5/2020/0561
2018
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Al3 4Sn
AWAITING VALIDATION. Tree number - T1 Tree type - Alder (Alnus glutinosa) Approx Height…
TP/2018/0119
2016 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
New windows to the ground floor
5/2016/3024
2016 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Sn
New windows to the ground floor
5/2016/3024
2016 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street Al3 4Sn
1 x Elder - Fell. 1 x Yew - Reduce and maintain as shrub. 1 x Silver Birch - Fell. 2 x Sy…
TP/2016/0192
2016 Approved
Grebe House St Michaels Street Al3 4Sn
1 x Elder - Fell. 1 x Yew - Reduce and maintain as shrub. 1 x Silver Birch - Fell. 2 x Sy…
TP/2016/0192
St Albans
Planning Authority Score
1.1/10
Poor
#290 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings