St Albans planning news
St Albans planning news, newest first: applications, appeals and committee decisions, each story linked back to the council file.
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St Albans Local Plan: 115 Sites Offered, Golf Courses Too
Two golf courses, a tennis club and 115 hectares at Potters Crouch are among 115 sites offered for the next St Albans Local Plan. Your first say: April 2027.
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Planning
St Albans planning: councillors lose call-in from 31 October
From Saturday, officers alone decide extensions and schemes under 10 homes in St Albans district. Councillors can no longer call them in to committee.
Planning
Fire-Wrecked Colney Street Warehouse to Be Demolished
The owners of the Ventura Park unit gutted in the 11 August fire that shut the M25 want to knock it down. Their engineers say the steel frame is too twisted to save.
Planning
Sandridge Shottfield Close: 84 Green Belt Homes Approved
Up to 84 homes, half of them affordable, on a Green Belt field beside Heartwood Forest won outline approval 5 votes to 1, with 3 abstentions. The conditions.
Planning
St Albans Local Plan adopted: 15,045 homes, 1994 plan gone
Councillors adopted the St Albans Local Plan on 9 September, replacing the 1994 plan the same day. It plans 15,045 homes and £750m of infrastructure.
Schools
Beaumont School: four blocks to go in phase two rebuild
The Department for Education wants four Beaumont School buildings demolished and one part three-storey teaching block put up. Registered 4 September.
Local Plan
St Albans Local Plan ruled sound, adoption vote 9 September
Two government inspectors signed the plan off on 21 August and councillors vote on adopting it on 9 September, replacing the 1994 plan. Three sites were added, sixteen deleted.