Land South West Of And Including 39 Chiswell Green Lane St Albans Hertfordshire Data via plota.co.uk

5/2026/1559 - PPOR Under Consideration

Proposal

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 07:12

Application progress

✓

Received

20 Aug 2026

✓

Validated

21 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 2 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 13 Nov 2026 and 7 Dec 2026, from St Albans's recent demolitions.

The consultation period closed on 2 Oct 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Public footpath about 5 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.

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.

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; Green belt about 5 m away: London.

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.

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Important details

Council: St Albans
Application type: PPOR
Received: 20 Aug 2026
Validated: 21 Aug 2026
Ward: St Stephen
Parish: ST STEPHEN
Target decision: 2 Oct 2026
Applicant: Show

Decision outlook

Day 49 of the 56-day target. St Albans usually decides demolitions by day 92.

target

prediction

Day 4943 days to the predicted decision (day 92)

22%decided within 8 weeks

83%approved

114decided 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: 323436PLN
Planning Portal ref: 15172344
Comments by: 2 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry: 15 Oct 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

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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