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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.
1,304 approved · 340 refused · 119 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Feb 2023 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Starwood House Avenue One Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 2HB
Received 17 Sept 20254 Church Green Great Wymondley Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7HA
Received 30 Sept 202532 Field Lane Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3LE
Received 27 Oct 202521 Saxon Rise Pirton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3FA
Received 17 Sept 2025High Acre Partridge Hill Ashwell Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5QZ
Received 17 Sept 2025Kingsway Solar Farm Between Burwell And Balsham Cambridgeshire
Received 17 Sept 2025105 Spring Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3SL
Received 17 Sept 202554 Hollow Lane Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9SB
Received 30 Sept 2025123 Icknield Way Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4AR
Received 18 Sept 202530 Silver Street Ashwell Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5QH
Received 18 Sept 2025104 Hampshire Road Royston Hertfordshire SG8 9FU
Received 16 Oct 2025Oakley Barn Barley Beans Road Peters Green Luton Hertfordshire LU2 8PG
Received 6 Oct 20258 The Willows Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9EB
Received 18 Sept 202517 Deards End Lane Knebworth Hertfordshire SG3 6NL
Received 1 Oct 202535 North Avenue Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1DH
Received 21 Jan 2026Land South Of Turnpike Lane Ickleford Hertfordshire
Received 18 Sept 2025Land North Of St Ibbs Lodge London Road St Ippolyts Hertfordshire
Received 29 Sept 20253 Shire End Close Ashwell Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5FD
Received 19 Sept 20252 Kingsoak Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7BF
Received 19 Sept 2025The Bull High Street Gosmore Hertfordshire SG4 7QG
Received 19 Sept 2025The Bull High Street Gosmore Hertfordshire SG4 7QG
Received 19 Sept 2025Glebe House New Inn Road Hinxworth Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5HB
Received 6 Oct 2025186 Whitehill Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9HY
Received 21 Oct 202510 Lucas Lane Ashwell Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5LN
Received 22 Sept 2025Records 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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