Land at Tollgate Farm Colney Heath St Albans AL4 0NY

6/2024/0257/EIAENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT - SCREENING/SCOPINGApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 April 2024

Council decision: DeterminedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Request for a screening opinion to determine whether an Environmental Statement is required

Received: 7 February 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council

ReceivedReceived7 Feb
ValidatedValidated7 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided8 Apr

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land at Tollgate Farm Colney Heath St Albans AL4 0NY. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,082 applications in total for the AL4 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: AL4 0NY
Application type: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT - SCREENING/SCOPING
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 7 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 2 Lockside Office Park Lockside Road Preston PR2 2YS

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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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© 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.

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

Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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