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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
28,970 approved · 4,816 refused · 2,217 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Apr 1948 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
8 Mandeville Rise, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 7JU
Received 30 May 201351 Homewood Avenue Cuffley Potters Bar EN6 4QQ
Received 4 Mar 201946 Gresley Close Welwyn Garden City AL8 7QB
Received 12 Jun 201749 Peartree Lane, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 3UA
Received 16 Jul 20146 Briary Wood End Welwyn AL6 0TD
Received 30 Nov 202120 Beehive Green Welwyn Garden City AL7 4BG
Received 12 May 20258 Little Youngs Welwyn Garden City AL8 6SL
Received 26 Aug 202212 Newgate Street Village, HERTFORD, Hertfordshire, SG13 8RA
Received 6 Aug 200711 Cranmer Close Little Heath Potters Bar EN6 1LB
Received 24 Jul 2020126 Great North Road Hatfield AL9 5JN
Received 6 Feb 2026H R Owen Mosquito Way Hatfield AL10 9WN
Received 23 Apr 202523 Somers Road, Welham Green, HATFIELD, AL9 7PR
Received 8 Feb 201351 Warren Way Digswell Welwyn AL6 0DL
Received 19 Jun 20155 Wellington Drive Welwyn Garden City AL7 2NL
Received 20 Oct 2017101 Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6JD
Received 15 Jan 2014Land to the r/o 26 Mardley Avenue, Welwyn, AL6 0TZ
Received 25 Feb 2015BRIDGEWORKS, Town Road, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Received 26 Jul 20077 Homerswood Lane, Ayot St Peter, Welwyn, AL6 9AD
Received 12 Aug 201320 Uplands, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7EW
Received 18 Dec 20159 Barbara Court Welwyn AL6 9GB
Received 30 Oct 202520 Westland Drive Brookmans Park Hatfield AL9 7UQ
Received 28 Jan 202119 Handside Lane Welwyn Garden City AL8 6SE
Received 30 Mar 20261 Rosecroft Lane Welwyn AL6 0UB
Received 14 Jun 20248 Prospect Place Welwyn AL6 9EN
Received 4 Apr 2007Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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