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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Welwyn Hatfield website
26,020 approved · 4,103 refused · 1,902 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Apr 1948 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 GEORGES WOOD ROAD, BROOKMANS PARK, HATFIELD, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL9 7BZ
Received 3 Apr 200817 Roundwood Drive, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JZ
Received 2 Sept 201613 Golden Dell Welwyn Garden City AL7 4EE
Received 20 Apr 20234 Camfield, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 4ED
Received 20 Jan 201617 Moffats Lane Brookmans Park Hatfield AL9 7RX
Received 18 May 202017 Coneydale, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7RX
Received 25 Feb 201611 Linces Way Welwyn Garden City AL7 3JN
Received 7 May 201925 Hill Rise Cuffley Potters Bar EN6 4EH
Received 29 Nov 20213 New Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7TX
Received 24 Jul 2017THE WOODMAN INN, WARRENGATE ROAD, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL9 7TT
Received 11 Jan 20087 Pentley Park Welwyn Garden City AL8 7RT
Received 13 Aug 201516 Oaklands Rise Welwyn AL6 0RN
Received 27 Jun 202430 Bacons Drive Cuffley Potters Bar EN6 4DU
Received 26 Mar 202112 Pleasant Rise, HATFIELD, AL9 5DS
Received 26 Jun 201336 Astwick Avenue Hatfield AL10 9LA
Received 9 Oct 200928 Attimore Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 6LP
Received 10 Oct 20164 Guessens Walk Welwyn Garden City AL8 6QS
Received 7 Jul 202517 Turpins Ride Welwyn AL6 0QU
Received 7 Dec 2007LAND AT 53 BOUNDARY LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL7 4EG
Received 16 Jan 2008LAND ADJACENT TO, 2 REDDINGS, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL8 7LA
Received 11 Dec 200884 Handside Lane, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6SJ
Received 13 Mar 201311 Little Youngs Welwyn Garden City AL8 6SL
Received 29 Mar 202210 Groom Place Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GG
Received 7 Apr 2022Sparrow Farm, Newgate Street Village, Hertford, SG13 8QR
Received 18 Jan 2019Records 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 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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