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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Dacorum Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,120 approved · 155 refused · 59 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Apr 2018 to 21 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
13 Hedgeside Potten End Hertfordshire HP4 2RE
Received 10 Sept 2026Lisle House 3 Ferrers Hill Farm Pipers Lane Markyate Hertfordshire AL3 8QG
Received 10 Sept 202677 Seaton Road Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 9HU
Received 9 Sept 202667 Crouchfield Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1PD
Received 10 Sept 202660 Gravel Hill Terrace Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1RJ
Received 10 Sept 202643 Charles Street Tring Hertfordshire HP23 6BD
Received 10 Sept 202616 Ridgeway Close Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 9TB
Received 10 Sept 2026White Cloud House Park Road Tring Hertfordshire HP23 6BU
Received 11 Sept 202623 Barncroft Road Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 3NL
Received 11 Sept 2026Lockers Park School Lockers Park Lane Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1TL
Received 10 Sept 202615 Highfield Road Tring Hertfordshire HP23 4DX
Received 11 Sept 2026The Old Forge Gaddesden Row Great Gaddesden Hertfordshire HP2 6HJ
Received 14 Sept 20261 Box Lane Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 0DH
Received 11 Sept 2026Eastwoods Butchers 15 Gravel Path Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 2EF
Received 14 Sept 20261 Beech Park Wigginton Hertfordshire HP23 6JF
Received 14 Sept 2026Nuyard Landscape Centre Tring Garden Centre Bulbourne Road Tring Hertfordshire HP23 5HF
Received 15 Sept 20265 Hudnall Lane Little Gaddesden Hertfordshire HP4 1QE
Received 14 Sept 2026Little Felden House Felden Lane Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 0BB
Received 15 Sept 202620 Bourne End Lane Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 2RL
Received 16 Sept 202620 Bourne End Lane Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 2RL
Received 16 Sept 20267 Belmers Road Wigginton Hertfordshire HP23 6ER
Received 16 Sept 20266 Berkeley Square Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP2 7QR
Received 16 Sept 2026The Glebe House Pipers Hill Great Gaddesden Hertfordshire HP1 3BY
Received 16 Sept 2026The New Forge Maple Farm Shantock Lane Bovingdon Hertfordshire HP3 0NN
Received 16 Sept 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Dacorum Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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