Planning application
Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
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
As published by the council, reference 5/2016/3006
Application record
- Reference
- 5/2016/3006
- Type
- (Large Scale Major) All Other Developments
- Status
- Approved
- Decision
- Granted As published: DC3 Conditional Permission
- Received
- 3 Oct 2016
- Validated
- 6 Oct 2016
- Decided
- 14 May 2018
- Ward
- Park Street
- Parish
- St Stephen
- Decision by
- Referral
Site history
Applications at this address on the St Albans register
This site has had 9 applications since 2016: 9 approved, 0 refused.
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5/2025/2168 Granted
Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire
Discharge of Conditions 12.8 (rail condition programme) and 13.3 (rail condition programme) 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 only) f
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5/2020/2920 Granted
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
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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
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5/2016/3013 Granted
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
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5/2016/3005 Granted
Proposed Rail Freight Public Open Space And Community Forest Sites North Orbital Road Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire
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
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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
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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
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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
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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3 Oct 2016
Received by St Albans
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6 Oct 2016
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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14 May 2018
Decision issued: DC3 Conditional Permission
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15 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
139 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
St Albans granted permission on 14 May 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.
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A full application seeks permission for a complete, detailed proposal in one go, with siting, design, access and landscaping all fixed at this stage. More in our guide to planning application types.
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