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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29,002 approved · 4,819 refused · 2,219 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 & 7 Birchwood Avenue Hatfield AL10 0PL
Received 15 Feb 2013Unit F City Park Swiftfields Welwyn Garden City AL7 1LY
Received 9 Jan 2019St Audreys Church Street Hatfield AL9 5AR
Received 25 Oct 201312 Great Ganett Welwyn Garden City AL7 3DF
Received 17 Aug 202086 Campion Road Hatfield AL10 9FT
Received 10 May 200713 Lockley Crescent Hatfield AL10 0TL
Received 18 Feb 200411 Newfields Welwyn Garden City AL8 6YS
Received 6 Mar 20185 Hangmans Lane Welwyn AL6 0TJ
Received 3 Jul 202524 The Meadway Cuffley Potters Bar EN6 4ES
Received 2 Jun 202135 Mardley Wood Welwyn AL6 0UY
Received 3 Oct 202574 Valley Road, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 7DP
Received 15 Apr 2013WOODHALL LANE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WOODHALL LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL7 3TP
Received 1 Jun 200415 Bennett Close Welwyn Garden City AL7 4JA
Received 3 Nov 20223 Walden Place Welwyn Garden City AL8 7PG
Received 26 Mar 2018AYOT MONTFICHET, AYOT ST PETER, WELWYN, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL6 9BH
Received 4 Sept 200713 Parsonage Lane Welham Green Hatfield AL9 7NB
Received 16 Jan 201899 High Dells Hatfield AL10 9HT
Received 15 Mar 201627 Furzefield Road Welwyn Garden City AL7 3RL
Received 2 Oct 20202 THE GLADE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL8 7LG
Received 17 Feb 20101 Hanyards End Cuffley Potters Bar EN6 4EN
Received 19 Dec 20196 Heath Close Little Heath Potters Bar EN6 1LT
Received 8 Mar 200410 Bluebridge Road, Brookmans Park, Hatfield, AL9 7SB
Received 7 Jul 20146 Great North Road Welwyn AL6 0PL
Received 27 Aug 2020164 Aldykes Hatfield Hertfordshire AL10 8EE
Received 29 Jul 2022Records 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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