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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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Hertfordshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,974 approved · 226 refused · 211 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jul 1946 to 25 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Rossway Farm, Shooters Way, Hertfordshire
Received 1 Apr 1992R J & H Haulage, Metropolitan Station Approach, Hertfordshire
Received 3 Oct 1994HCC, Fairfields Jmi, Rosedale Rd, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Received 14 Dec 1998Northend Ind Est, Bury Mead Rd, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Received 16 Apr 2003HCC, Ward Freman School, Bowling Green Lane, Buntingford, Hertfordshire
Received 19 Sept 1997HCC, Smallford Pit, Colney Heath, Hertfordshire
Received 14 Aug 2002Land at Bishop's Stortford North, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Received 24 May 2023Woolenwick Infants School, Bridge Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2NU
Received 13 Feb 2002Boxted Farm, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Received 29 Oct 1997HCC, 8-10 The Glebe, Chells Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Received 30 Mar 2000Brycelands Removal Ltd, Jacks Hill, Great North Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 7EQ
Received 2 Jun 2010HCC, County Supplies Depot, Mount Pleasant Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Received 9 Dec 1999HCC, Benington C Of E Primary School, Walkern Road, Benington, Hertfordshire
Received 31 Mar 2005Land south-west of Farnham Road and north of Rye Street, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
Received 3 Dec 2018HCC, Wheatfields Jmi, Downes Rd, St Albans, Hertfordshire
Received 26 Apr 2000HCC, Longmeadow Jmi, Oaks Cross, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Received 14 Jan 1999Northgate End Car Park, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
Received 13 May 1996The Bushey Academy, London Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire, WD23 3AA
Received 30 Aug 2012Stevenage Recycling Centre, Caxton Way, Stevenage, SG1 2DF
Received 19 Jul 2023HCC, Sparrows Herne, Little Bushey Lane, Bushey, Hertfordshire
Received 26 Feb 2015Caldecote Farm, Caldecote Lane, Bushey, WD23 4EF
Received 24 Jan 2019St Catherines Church Of England School, Park Road, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0AW
Received 29 Apr 2010Land at Hatfield Aerodrome, Off Hatfield Road
Received 3 Sept 2021R J & H Haulage, Metropolitan Station Approach, Hertfordshire
Received 19 Oct 1992Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Hertfordshire County 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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