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Land at Shire Park, Falcon Way, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW

6/2016/0491/MAJMAJOR DEVELOPMENTApproved
Full

Approved on 29 June 2016

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide a part-basement and two storey business resource centre including food test kitchens, cookery school, customer experience centre, training academy, staff welfare facilities including gym and outdoor sports facilities, ancillary uses and a local retail store (Use Class A1) together with associated car parking, landscaping and infrastructure works.

Received
24 March 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Haldens
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.26 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jun

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Land at Shire Park, Falcon Way, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 2,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Haldens. We hold 714 applications in total for the AL7 postcode area.

83% of full applications at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL7 1TW
Application type
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2016
Consultation expiry
29 April 2016
Consultation end
26 April 2016
Neighbour consultation end
26 April 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Savills 33 Margaret Street London W1G 0JD

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
27 April 2016
Site notice end
29 April 2016

Additional information

UPRN
200003857700
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2017
    24 Aug

    Submission of details pursuant to condition 6 (fence and floodlights), 7 (landscape proposals) and 9 (odour…

    RefusedDischarge of conditions6/2017/1912/COND
  2. 2016
    24 Mar

    Demolition of existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide a part-basement and two storey…

    This applicationApprovedFull6/2016/0491/MAJ

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