5 De Tany Court St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 1TT Data via plota.co.uk

5/2025/1695 - HSE Approved

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received
15 Sept 2025
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Validated
16 Sept 2025
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Approved
19 Nov 2025

Approved on 19 Nov 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 12 Oct 2026

Site constraints 5

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 ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; 3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Scheduled monument about 239 m away: St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings; Inside the St Albans built-up area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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.

Sales history 4

Last sold for £922,000 in July 2020. Detached house, freehold.

31 July 2020£922,000
23 May 2008£635,000
23 April 1999£249,950
19 June 1996£183,500

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
St Albans
Application type
HSE
Postcode
AL1 1TT
Received
15 Sept 2025
Validated
16 Sept 2025
Ward
Sopwell
Case officer
Show
Target decision
15 Nov 2025
Decision
DC3 Conditional Permission
Decision date
19 Nov 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Dan Fowler (Rosslee Architecture)

How this decision compares

Decided in 64 days from validation, 15 days faster than St Albans's median of 79 for extensions. Approved, as 86% of extensions here are.

29%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
752decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
317213PLN
Planning Portal ref
14326689
Comments by
15 Nov 2025
Site or press notice
23 Oct 2025
Statutory expiry
10 Nov 2025
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

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.