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Gorhambury House Gorhambury St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ah

Awaiting decision St Albans 5/2025/1640 (Minor) All Other Developments

Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.

Proposal

AMENDED DESCRIPTION & AMENDED INFORMATION - Installation of stand-by generator and fire-fighting water storage tank, relocation of UKPN substation, creation of a new fenced bin store yard and parking area with associated access road, landscaping and surfa

As published by the council, reference 5/2025/1640

Application record

Reference
5/2025/1640
Type
(Minor) All Other Developments
Status
Under Consultation
Received
4 Sep 2025
Validated
12 Nov 2025
Ward
Verulam
Parish
St Michael
Decision by
Delegated
Postcode
AL3 6AH

Comment by 19 November 2026

The council is taking comments on this application until then. Comments go to St Albans through their own planning portal.

Site history

Applications at this address on the St Albans register

This site has had 5 applications since 2017: 3 approved, 0 refused.

  • 5/2025/1664 Awaiting decision

    Gorhambury House Gorhambury St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ah

    Listed Building Consent - Installation of stand-by generator and fire-fighting water storage tank together with relocation of UKPN substation, landscape and surfacing alterations within the curtilage of Gorhambury House (part retention)

    Submitted 4 Sep 2025 Heritage and listed buildings
  • 5/2017/3334 Granted

    Gorhambury House Gorhambury St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ah

    Discharge of Condition 3 (samples of materials-slate, stone, render) of Listed Building consent 5/2017/1676 dated 17/11/2017 for New roofing to mansion and wing roof to match the original design, installation of ventilation, insulation, walkways and acces

    Decided 17 Jan 2018 Conditions
  • 5/2017/3335 Granted

    Gorhambury House Gorhambury St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ah

    Discharge of Condition 4 (samples of materials-slate, stone, render) of planning permission 5/2017/1685 dated 17/11/2017 for New roofing to mansion and wing roof to match the original design, installation of ventilation, insulation, walkways and access ha

    Decided 17 Jan 2018 Conditions
  • 5/2017/3336 Granted

    Gorhambury House Gorhambury St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 6Ah

    Discharge of Condition 3 (details of shutters) of Listed Building consent 5/2017/0891dated 23/06/17 for Internal alterations including strengthening of new and existing shutters

    Decided 12 Jan 2018 Conditions

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 4 Sep 2025

    Received by St Albans

  2. 12 Nov 2025

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 27 Sep 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  4. 11 Oct 2026

    Status changed to Under Consultation

    Previously Under Consideration.

  5. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 7 January 2026, 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

38 documents on file for this application

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What 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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