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Telephone Exchange Wigmores North Welwyn Garden City AL8 6PH

6/2024/2170/FULLFULL PERMISSIONRefused
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Refused on 3 January 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of an aluminium louvre following removal of 2x window panes on the first-floor east elevation

Received
11 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Handside
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.20 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Jan

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Telephone Exchange Wigmores North Welwyn Garden City AL8 6PH. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 2,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. The site is in the Welwyn Garden City conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 230 applications across Handside. 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 6PH
Application type
FULL PERMISSION

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2024
Consultation expiry
4 January 2025
Consultation end
20 December 2024
Decision issued
6 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Glass House Hopton Bank Hopton Wafers Kidderminster DY14 0QH

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
4 January 2025
Site notice end
2 January 2025

Additional information

UPRN
200003856293

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Welwyn Garden City
  • 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, 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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