Source: St Albans City and District Council·Updated daily·Last checked 12 Sept 2026
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Plota holds 2,154 current planning applications from St Albans City and District Council, received since 29 Oct 2024, 743 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 37,703 earlier applications from St Albans City and District Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at planningapplications.stalbans.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 12 Sept 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from St Albans: 11 Sept 2026. We check the council's portal daily.