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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 North Hertfordshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,198 approved · 310 refused · 107 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Feb 2023 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Hitchin Girls School Highbury Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9RS
Received 30 Oct 2024Woodside Hall Walsworth Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9SP
Received 5 Nov 2024Land North Of The Depot At 1A High Street Graveley Hertfordshire SG4 7LE
Received 30 Oct 20248 Lower Road Breachwood Green Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 8NS
Received 30 Oct 202462 St Albans Road Codicote Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 8UT
Received 31 Oct 202430 Uplands Avenue Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9NH
Received 11 Nov 202418 Springhead Ashwell Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5LL
Received 31 Oct 2024Mayfield Kimpton Road Oakhills Welwyn Hertfordshire AL6 9NN
Received 31 Oct 202420 Redhoods Way East Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4DF
Received 31 Oct 2024Land On The North Side Of Pirton Road Holwell Hertfordshire SG5 3SN
Received 24 Oct 2024Land On The North Side Of Pirton Road Holwell Hertfordshire SG5 3SN
Received 24 Oct 2024Church Cottage Church Lane Therfield Royston Hertfordshire SG8 9QD
Received 31 Oct 2024Land On The North Side Of Pirton Road Holwell Hertfordshire SG5 3SN
Received 24 Oct 2024Land At Layby Along Haywood Lane Therfield Hertfordshire SG8 9RH
Received 31 Oct 2024Dalnyveed Bakers Lane Barley Royston Hertfordshire SG8 8HJ
Received 31 Oct 202418 Cleveland Way Great Ashby Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 6BZ
Received 31 Oct 20244A Kneesworth Street Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5AA
Received 12 Nov 2024Service Station Bedford Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2UG
Received 14 Nov 202468 Chiltern Road Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 6LS
Received 6 Nov 2024Bibbsworth Hall Farm Bibbs Hall Lane Kimpton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 8EN
Received 1 Nov 2024Bibbsworth Hall Farm Bibbs Hall Lane Kimpton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 8EN
Received 1 Nov 2024Bibbsworth Hall Farm Bibbs Hall Lane Kimpton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 8EN
Received 1 Nov 202462 Glebe Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1DR
Received 1 Nov 2024Poplar Cottage Southern Green Rushden Buntingford Hertfordshire SG9 0SY
Received 4 Nov 2024Records 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 North Hertfordshire District 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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