Planning application for former Fleetville Library

Application Reference 5/2009/1911 Application Type MIND

Location Fleetville Library 237 Hatfield Road St Albans AL1 4TB
Ward Clarence
Proposal Demolition of existing single storey library and erection of three storey block consisting of three, two bedroom flats and three, one bedroom flats for social housing
Status This application is under consultation which is due to end on 02/11/2009. A decision is due be made on or before 24/11/2009

Applicant’s Name: Ability Housing Association
Applicant’s Address:
The Coach House Gresham Road
Staines
Middlesex
TW18 2AE
Agent: Gelder And Kitchen LLP
Agent’s Address:
Maister House high Street
Hull
HU1 1NL

Case Officer Hayden Todd
Telephone 01727 866100 Extension: 2725

Key dates
Valid Date 30/09/2009 End of statutory period 24/11/2009
Advertised Date 30/09/2009 External Consultation 21/10/2009
Responses By 26/10/2009

Descision Type Delegated
Committee Date 23/11/2009
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Still time to give us your views on Shaping Our Community

Still time to give us your views on Shaping Our Community
www.stalbans.gov.uk

Residents are being urged to give their views on the Shaping Our
Community planning consultation before the close of the campaign next
week.
Hundreds of residents, business and community groups have attended a
touring public exhibition, ward meetings; visited the online survey and
picked up information from libraries and other information points. The
consultation, which opened in July, closes on Monday 28 September 2009.

Portfolio holder for planning, Cllr Chris Brazier is urging residents to
complete the questionnaire so their views can be taken into account as
the district council progresses the Emerging Core Strategy. This can be
done on line by visiting the council’s website
http://www.stalbans.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/policy/Shap
ingOurCommunityConsultation.aspx or visiting the exhibition which is now
in the foyer of the district council offices.

“Throughout the district residents have attended meetings and
exhibitions to find out more information and express their views on how
the district should respond to planning challenges and opportunities. We
are now coming to the close of this consultation period and I urge
residents to complete their questionnaire, which can be easily done
online, by Monday, 28 September, 2009.”

Crucial issues affecting St Albans city and district, including
protecting the Green Belt while balancing the need to provide new
housing, jobs and leisure opportunities are part of the community
consultation exercise on the future planning strategy for the area.

People living and working in the district are being invited to have
their say on key issues that affect long term planning strategy. As well
as protecting the Green Belt, views are being sought on, for example,
whether St Albans city centre needs a new supermarket, the proposed
locations for schools and youth clubs and new transport measures aimed
at reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions. The consultation
will feed into work to produce the Local Development Framework – a set
of planning documents which set the direction of planning policy until
2026. The context for the document is set by the Sustainable Community
Strategy for the District, which has just been revised and is being
published at the same time. The priorities of the Local Development
Framework are taken from the Sustainable Community Strategy.

Cllr Robert Donald, leader of St Albans City and District Council,
commented: “Nine out of ten St Albans residents rate our district as a
good place to live. This consultation is an important opportunity to
help ensure the district continues to develop and flourish, maintaining
its unique mix of city, towns and villages, its urban and rural
environment and its diverse heritage, while providing new opportunities
to support the local economy and community.

“The council attaches great importance to protecting the Green Belt and
will continue strongly to resist any government requirement to encroach
upon it. It was for this reason that we successfully legally challenged
some of the housing numbers in the East of England Regional Plan earlier
this year.

“But residents need to be aware that despite this resistance, we have to
prepare for the possibility that the government will require an increase
in the number of new houses that have to be built in the district and if
this happens we may need to consider building in the Green Belt. So this
strategy also invites views about some of the difficult choices which –
if required to – we might need to make in future.”

Following the feedback, the council will revise the document and produce
the final Core Strategy. The aim is to submit the document formally to
the Government in July 2010 and to adopt it, following approval, in June
2011.

Constitutional Club application causes local concern

Local residents are expressing concern over the application made by the Consitutional Club to develop the land currently occupied by garages into dwellings. The link to the application is shown below. If you have concerns, or if you support the application, please get in touch with Cllr Michael Green (details in side bar).

http://www.stalbans.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/planning-applications/planning-applications-search.aspx

‘Shaping Our Community’ exhibitions

Shaping Our Community exhibitions

Planning Consultation – Emerging Core Strategy

Visit your local venue below to view the consultation or go online now at:
www.stalbans.gov.uk. The consultation closes on 28 Sep, 2009.

Tues, 1 Sep
1pm to 6pm
Colney Heath Village Hall
St Albans
AL4 OPS

Wed, 2 Sep
1pm to 6.30pm
Sandridge Village Hall
71 St Albans Rd
St Albans
AL4 9LH

Thurs, 3 Sep
1pm to 6.30pm
Wheathampstead Memorial Hall
Hewitt Room
Marford Rd
Herts
AL4 8AY

Fri, 4 Sep
1pm to 5pm
Harpenden Park Hall
Leyton Rd
AL5 2LX

Sat, 5 Sep
9.30am to 12noon
Harpenden Park Hall
Leyton Rd
AL5 2LX

Mon, 7 Sep
12noon to 7pm
Chiswell Green Greenwood Park Community Centre
Tippendell Lane,
Herts
AL2 3HW

Wed, 9 Sep
12noon to 7pm
Redbourn Village Hall
63 High Street
Herts

Thurs, 10 Sep
12noon to 7pm
London Colney Adventure World
Perham Way
Herts
AL2 1LB

Sat, 12 Sep
10am to 4pm
St Albans Central Library
The Maltings
AL1 3JQ

10 Upton Avenue

The continuing building works at 10 Upton Avenue have been ‘called in’ to committee. The original application involved a void under the ground floor but it is clear that this has now been turned into a room. Michael Green has referred it to the Plans Central Planning Committee for review.

Pizza Hut appeal (London Road) dismissed by planning inspector

Local residents will be delighted to hear that this appeal against the refusal of planning permission by the district council has been turned down by the planning inspector.

In summary he says: ‘the development would add unacceptably to highways dangers and the vacant and unused first floor would conflict both with local plan policy for the area and Government guidance.’