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

26/1835/CON - Discharge of Condition Pending Consideration

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 29 (details of play spaces) of planning application approved by appeal dated 22/03/2024 for Outline application (access sought) - Demolition of existing structures and construction of up to 391 dwellings (Use Class C3), provision of land for a new 2FE primary school, open space provision and associated landscaping. Internal roads, parking, footpaths, cycleways, drainage, utilities and service infrastructure and new access arrangements Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 05:10

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Application progress

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Received

9 Oct 2026

✓

Validated

12 Oct 2026

✓

Consultation

12 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 7 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 7 Dec 2026.

Comments are open until 3 Nov 2026

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Documents 5

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 9 Oct 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF SUMMARY OF CONSULTATIONS PLANNING/TREES Summary of Consultations · 12 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

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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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 1

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; Priority habitat 34 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 13 October 2026. 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: Discharge of Condition
Received: 9 Oct 2026
Validated: 12 Oct 2026
Ward: St Stephen
Parish: St Stephen
Target decision: 7 Dec 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Armstrong Rigg Planning

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 20 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15276179
Planning Portal ref: PP-15276179
Consultation: 12 Oct 2026
Comments by: 3 Nov 2026
Statutory expiry: 7 Dec 2026
Env. assessment: No

St Albans

Planning Authority Score

1.1/10

Poor

#290 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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