Planning application
St Albans City Hospital Waverley Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 5Pn
Works: Demolition
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Discharge of Biodiversity Net Gain Condition of planning permission 5/2025/1147 dated 11/09/2025 for Installation of standby generators, storage tanks, acoustic enclosure, and demolition of external staircase
As published by the council, reference 5/2026/0321
Application record
- Reference
- 5/2026/0321
- Type
- Discharge of Condition
- Status
- Approved
- Decision
- Discharge of Condition - Approved
- Received
- 19 Feb 2026
- Validated
- 20 Feb 2026
- Decided
- 22 May 2026
- Ward
- Batchwood
- Decision by
- Delegated
- Postcode
- AL3 5PN
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 Feb 2026
Received by St Albans
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20 Feb 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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22 May 2026
Decision issued: Discharge of Condition - Approved
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31 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
10 documents on file for this application
A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.
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The process from here
Permission has been granted, usually subject to conditions listed on the decision notice, some of which must be discharged before work starts. The decision notice on the council portal sets out exactly what was approved.
Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses. Neighbours cannot appeal a grant; challenging one means judicial review of how the decision was made, within tight time limits.
About conditions applications
How this application type works
This type of application deals with conditions attached to an existing permission, either by supplying the details a condition requires, called discharging it, or by asking to vary or remove one. It does not reopen the principle of the permission itself. Building often cannot lawfully start, or continue past a set stage, until the named conditions are discharged.
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