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St Albans High School For Girls Playing Field Townsend Drive St Albans Hertfordshire

Awaiting decision St Albans 5/2026/1182 (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

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

As published by the council, reference 5/2026/1182

Application record

Reference
5/2026/1182
Type
(Minor) All Other Developments
Status
Under Consideration
Received
19 Jun 2026
Validated
8 Jul 2026
Ward
Batchwood

Site history

Applications at this address on the St Albans register

This site has had 3 applications since 2017: 1 approved, 0 refused.

  • 5/2025/0511 Awaiting decision

    St Albans High School For Girls Playing Field Townsend Drive St Albans Hertfordshire

    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.

    Submitted 19 Mar 2025
  • 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

    Decided 16 Nov 2017 Conditions

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 19 Jun 2026

    Received by St Albans

  2. 8 Jul 2026

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 24 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  4. 13 Sep 2026

    Status changed to Under Consideration

    Previously Under Consultation.

  5. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 2 September 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

26 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

The published feed does not state which type of application this is; the register entry on St Albans's portal will say. Our guide explains the common types.