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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
29,002 approved · 4,819 refused · 2,219 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Apr 1948 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 Great North Road Welwyn AL6 0PX
Received 24 Feb 20043 The Ridgeway, Cuffley, Potters Bar, EN6 4AY
Received 3 Feb 201638 Harmer Green Lane Digswell Welwyn AL6 0AT
Received 16 Mar 20176 Cromer Hyde Lane Lemsford Welwyn Garden City AL8 7XE
Received 20 Jul 202347 Elm Gardens Welwyn Garden City AL8 6RX
Received 23 May 2025Bedwell Park Bedwell Hall Cucumber Lane Essendon Hatfield AL9 6GJ
Received 3 Jan 202513 Pitsfield Welwyn Garden City AL8 7SJ
Received 7 Aug 20156 Glebeland Hatfield AL10 8AA
Received 26 Feb 201910 The Croft, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 4JY
Received 19 May 20229 The Ryde, HATFIELD, AL9 5DQ
Received 15 Jan 201312 Camfield, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 4ED
Received 7 Apr 2004Plot 5610 Gypsy Moth Avenue Hatfield AL10 9BS
Received 23 Sept 202512 Campion Road Hatfield AL10 9FB
Received 22 Jul 201511 The Jinnings Welwyn Garden City AL7 4QB
Received 15 Aug 2022Land off London Road Woolmer Green SG3 6JZ
Received 9 Jul 20254 Bluebridge Avenue, Brookmans Park, Hatfield, AL9 7RZ
Received 30 Jul 201411 Colgrove Welwyn Garden City AL8 6HY
Received 2 Aug 2017112 Harmer Green Lane Digswell Welwyn Hertfordshire AL6 0ET
Received 14 Apr 202333 Birchwood Avenue Hatfield AL10 0PR
Received 15 Jun 202116 Canonsfield Road Welwyn AL6 0QH
Received 17 Sept 201512 Longlands Road Welwyn Garden City AL7 3QB
Received 31 Mar 201774 Brocket Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7TU
Received 3 Jan 201938 PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL8 6HQ
Received 7 Jan 2010Green Brow Waterend Lane Ayot St Peter Welwyn AL6 9BB
Received 28 Apr 2015Records 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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