Marlborough House 5 Grove Road St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1DQ Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 5/2025/0553
Council
St Albans 1.1/10
Date received
24 Mar 2025
Date validated
25 Mar 2025
Postcode
AL1 1DQ

Description

Conversion of existing mono-pitch roof of outbuilding to a new pitched roof to match adjacent outbuilding Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 8

St Albans - Holywell Hill / Sopwell Lane 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 ↗
Scheduled monument about 93 m away: St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Public footpath about 26 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
Radon affected area, class 3; 4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the St Albans built-up area; Green belt about 70 m away: London.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3

Checked on 9 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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Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Refused
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) - new canopy to rear of existing dwelling
5/2024/1797
2023 Approved
New pedestrian access gate in existing boundary wall
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2023 Approved
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings