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Ridgeway Academy Herns Lane Welwyn Garden City AL7 2AF

6/2023/1690/PN24Solar Panels/PV - PRIOR APPROVALApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 October 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of solar panels to roof

Received
11 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Haldens
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.16 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Ridgeway Academy Herns Lane Welwyn Garden City AL7 2AF. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

73% of outline 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 2AF
Application type
Solar Panels/PV - PRIOR APPROVAL

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2023
Consultation expiry
20 September 2023
Consultation end
16 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Suite 1C, Warren House 10-20 Main Road Hockley Essex SS5 4QS

Publicity

Site notice end
20 September 2023

Additional information

UPRN
100081156597

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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