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Land adjacent to 51 Great North Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7TJ

6/2023/2425/FULLFULL PERMISSIONRefused
Full

Refused on 29 November 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land to residential. Erection of four dwellings with associated access, parking and landscaping. Works to right of way

Received
4 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hatfield Villages
  1. Received4 Dec
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.24 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Nov

Decided in 332 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Land adjacent to 51 Great North Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7TJ. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 2,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 361 days, 44 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 47 applications across Hatfield Villages. We hold 1,408 applications in total for the AL8 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
AL8 7TJ
Application type
FULL PERMISSION
Parish
Hatfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2024
Consultation expiry
22 July 2024
Consultation end
24 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 The Gavel Centre Porters Wood St Albans AL3 6PQ

Publicity

Site notice end
22 July 2024

Appeal history

3361650
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 16 July 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal
Green Belt

Additional information

UPRN
200003855991

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Welwyn Hatfield
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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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Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    5 Mar

    Submission of details pursuant to condition 1 (Construction Ecological Management Plan), condition 2…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions6/2026/0405/COND
  2. 2025
    19 Sep

    Variation of Condition 3 (Technical highways plans) and Condition 15 (approved plans) on planning permission…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)6/2025/2017/VAR
  3. 2025
    4 Apr

    Redevelopment of the site to include the erection of a dwelling with associated access, parking and…

    ApprovedFULL PERMISSION6/2025/0654/FULL
  4. 2023
    30 Nov

    Change of use of land to residential. Demolition of existing stable building and erection of a two bedroom…

    ApprovedFULL PERMISSION6/2023/2416/FULL
  5. 2022
    24 Jun

    Conversion of stable building to a single, one-bedroom dwelling

    ApprovedFULL PERMISSION6/2022/1474/FULL

Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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