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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29,002 approved · 4,819 refused · 2,219 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Wilga Road, Welwyn, AL6 9PT
Received 2 Oct 201536 High Oaks Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7BH
Received 3 Jul 201938 Parkway, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6HQ
Received 7 Oct 20136 Hall Grove Welwyn Garden City AL7 4PN
Received 10 Jul 202611 Thistle Drive Hatfield AL10 9FQ
Received 25 Apr 20234 Harmer Dell Welwyn AL6 0BE
Received 19 Jan 20221 Kilnfield Welwyn Garden City AL7 1NR
Received 12 Jul 2019De Havilland Campus University Of Hertfordshire Mosquito Way Hatfield
Received 20 Aug 2018168 Blythway Welwyn Garden City AL7 1DU
Received 4 Aug 202556 Attimore Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 6LP
Received 8 Aug 201938 The Grove Brookmans Park AL9 7RN
Received 25 Mar 20245 Tolmers Mews Newgate Street Hertford SG13 8RG
Received 27 May 20214 Holwell Hyde Welwyn Garden City AL7 3DJ
Received 17 May 200429 ELMWOOD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL8 6LD
Received 27 Feb 20094 The Drive Welwyn AL6 0TR
Received 15 Oct 2025107 TOLMERS ROAD, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, HERTS, EN6 4JL
Received 9 Dec 20099 Oaklands Avenue Brookmans Park Hatfield AL9 7UH
Received 2 Apr 2015Vehicle Workshop 50 Reynards Road Welwyn AL6 9TP
Received 1 Jun 201714 The Courtyard Bedwell Park Cucumber Lane Essendon Hatfield AL9 6GH
Received 17 Sept 201510 East View, Essendon, Hatfield, AL9 6HJ
Received 8 Dec 20148 Springfields Welwyn Garden City AL8 6XP
Received 25 Nov 202027 Hill Rise Cuffley Potters Bar EN6 4EH
Received 24 Apr 2007Fountain View Great North Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7TG
Received 20 Nov 202011 Farm Close Welwyn Garden City AL8 6RP
Received 5 Mar 2018Records 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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