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Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

Granted St Albans 5/2016/3005 Discharge of Condition

Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 28 (renewable energy) of outline planning permission 5/2009/0708, allowed at appeal dated 14/07/2014, for the development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchange comprising intermodal area, distribution buildings (Class B8 use) and ot

As published by the council, reference 5/2016/3005

Application record

Reference
5/2016/3005
Type
Discharge of Condition
Status
Approved
Decision
Discharge of Condition - Approved
Received
3 Oct 2016
Validated
6 Oct 2016
Decided
27 Sep 2018
Ward
Park Street
Parish
St Stephen
Decision by
Delegated

Site history

Applications at this address on the St Albans register

This site has had 8 applications since 2016: 5 approved, 0 refused.

  • 5/2020/2920 Decided

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Discharge of Conditions 12.8 (delivery of rail works report) and 13.3 (rail works written report) of planning permission 5/2009/0708 allowed on appeal dated 14/07/2014 for Outline planning application (approval of means of access, siting and landscaping o

    Decided 11 Jul 2021 Conditions
  • 5/2020/0509 Granted

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Certificate of Lawfulness (existing) - The carrying out of operations comprising the digging of two trenches which contain the foundations to part of the Visitor Information Centre in compliance with the requirements of planning permission 5/2009/0708 dat

    Decided 5 Jul 2021 Lawful development
  • 5/2016/3013 Decided

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Discharge of Condition 24.1 (contamination) of outline planning permission 5/2009/0708, allowed at appeal dated 14/07/2014, for the development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchange comprising intermodal area, distribution buildings (Class B8 use) and oth

    Decided 8 Jul 2019 Conditions
  • 5/2016/3006 Decided

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Approval of Reserved Matters (Development) of outline planning permission 5/2009/0708 allowed at appeal dated 14/07/2014 for the development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchange comprising intermodal area, distribution buildings (Class B8 use) and other

    Decided 14 May 2018 Full applications
  • 5/2016/3004 Granted

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Discharge of Condition 27 (refuse) of outline planning permission 5/2009/0708, allowed at appeal dated 14/07/2014, for the development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchange comprising intermodal area, distribution buildings (Class B8 use) and other relate

    Decided 14 Jun 2018 Conditions
  • 5/2016/3003 Granted

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Discharge of Condition 21 (protected species) of outline planning permission 5/2009/0708, allowed at appeal dated 14/07/2014, for the development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchange comprising intermodal area, distribution buildings (Class B8 use) and o

    Decided 27 Sep 2018 Conditions
  • 5/2016/2962 Granted

    Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire

    Discharge of Condition 17 (drainage) of outline planning permission 5/2009/0708 allowed at appeal dated 14/07/2014 for the development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchange comprising intermodal area, distribution buildings (Class B8 use) and other relate

    Decided 14 Jun 2018 Conditions

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 3 Oct 2016

    Received by St Albans

  2. 6 Oct 2016

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 27 Sep 2018

    Decision issued: Discharge of Condition - Approved

  4. 15 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

17 documents on file for this application

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What this grant of permission means

St Albans granted permission on 27 September 2018, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

About condition discharge and variation applications

This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.

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