Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
21,700 approved · 3,312 refused · 1,600 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Apr 1948 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
68 Attimore Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 6LP
Received 6 Apr 202134 Parkway Welwyn Garden City AL8 6HQ
Received 25 Oct 201849 Elmwood Welwyn Garden City AL8 6LD
Received 13 May 2021Eight Bells 2 Park Street Hatfield AL9 5AX
Received 22 Feb 2021Northaw House Coopers Lane Northaw Potters Bar EN6 4NG
Received 7 Jan 20215 Copper Beeches Welwyn AL6 0SS
Received 26 Feb 20198 Rosecroft Lane Welwyn AL6 0UB
Received 15 Dec 2025Bush Hall Hotel Chequers Hatfield AL9 5NT
Received 3 Feb 202033 Town Centre Hatfield AL10 0JX
Received 14 Feb 202016 Hillside Way Welwyn AL6 0TY
Received 12 Dec 201951 Brockswood Lane Welwyn Garden City AL8 7BU ( error on address should be 53.)
Received 5 Jan 201885 Drovers Way Hatfield AL10 0QB
Received 9 Feb 20213 Walden Place, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7PG
Received 24 Nov 2015Tesco Stores Ltd, Great North Road, Hatfield, AL9 5JY
Received 13 Feb 2014Bell Bar Service Station Great North Road Hatfield AL9 6DA
Received 21 Mar 202526 Dellcott Close Welwyn Garden City AL8 7BD
Received 7 Aug 201859 Valley Road, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 7DH
Received 30 Aug 20132 New Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7TX
Received 21 Sept 201519 Fallowfield, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1EE
Received 16 Nov 2015Pizza Express, Unit 65, Hatfield Galleria Shopping Centre, Comet Way, Hatfield, AL10 0XY
Received 25 Oct 20132 Douglas Close Digswell Welwyn AL6 0DT
Received 30 Jun 2015110 Guessens Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 6RS
Received 1 Mar 202314 Tolmers Road, Cuffley, Potters Bar, EN6 4LA
Received 17 Dec 20154 Mannicotts Welwyn Garden City AL8 7BW
Received 15 May 2017Records 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 Welwyn Hatfield 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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