Planning application
St Albans High School For Girls Playing Field Townsend Drive St Albans Hertfordshire
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Extending the hours of use of the existing synthetic sports pitches to 6:30pm, with the erection of floodlighting of the sport pitches for use between October & March.
As published by the council, reference 5/2025/0511
Application record
- Reference
- 5/2025/0511
- Type
- (Minor) All Other Developments
- Status
- Under Consideration
- Received
- 19 Mar 2025
- Validated
- 15 May 2025
- Ward
- Batchwood
- Parish
- Central St Albans
Site history
Applications at this address on the St Albans register
This site has had 3 applications since 2017: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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5/2026/1182 Awaiting decision
St Albans High School For Girls Playing Field Townsend Drive St Albans Hertfordshire
Variation of Condition 11 (hours of opening) to amend hours of opening to the use hereby permitted shall not be outside the following times: 0930 hours and 18:30 hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive and 0830 hours and 18:30 hours on Saturdays with occasi
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5/2017/2708 Granted
St Albans High School For Girls Playing Field Townsend Drive St Albans Hertfordshire
Discharge of Condition 3 (floodlighting design) of planning permission 5/2017/1016 dated 21/07/2017 for the Installation of six new lighting columns to tennis courts
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 Mar 2025
Received by St Albans
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15 May 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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7 Sep 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 10 July 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
St Albans took a median of 76 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
72 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with St Albans for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year St Albans's median decision took 76 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About this record
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