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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.
1,360 approved · 375 refused · 136 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Feb 2023 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rose View Cottage Gosmore Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9BG
Received 2 Jul 2026Old Rectory Church Lane Kelshall Royston Hertfordshire SG8 9SP
Received 2 Jul 2026Land Known As Plot 2A London Road Barkway Hertfordshire SG8 8EY
Received 3 Jul 202613 - 14 The Green Kimpton Hertfordshire SG4 8RZ
Received 28 Aug 202659 Coleridge Close Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 0QX
Received 22 Jul 2026219 Glebe Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1DZ
Received 17 Jul 202616 Leys Avenue Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3EU
Received 3 Jul 202655 Benslow Lane Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 9RD
Received 15 Jul 2026Starwood House Avenue One Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 2HB
Received 3 Jul 2026127 Norton Way South Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1SU
Received 30 Jul 202610 Yeats Close Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5TE
Received 20 Jul 2026Pendmere Fore Street Weston Hertfordshire SG4 7AS
Received 6 Jul 2026White House Ashwell Road Newnham Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 5JU
Received 6 Jul 2026Upton House Baldock Street Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5AY
Received 6 Jul 2026Irongate Barn Halls Green Weston Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 7DR
Received 6 Jul 202648a Horn Hill Whitwell Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 8AR
Received 7 Jul 202623a Hitchin Street Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 6AQ
Received 15 Jul 2026St Christopher School Barrington Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3JZ
Received 7 Jul 2026Land To The East Of Foxholes And Gainsford House And On The West Side Of Crow Furlong Hitchin Hertfordshire
Received 7 Jul 2026Green Oak Barn London Road St Ippolyts Hertfordshire SG4 7NE
Received 6 Aug 20266 Norton Way North Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1BY
Received 7 Jul 202617 Norton Way North Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1BY
Received 7 Jul 202641 High Street Pirton Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 3PT
Received 7 Jul 2026Land Surrounding Burloes Cottages Newmarket Road Royston Hertfordshire
Received 7 Jul 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 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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