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Cromer House Marford Road Lemsford Welwyn Garden City AL8 7XD

6/2025/0062/HOUSEHOUSEHOLDER APPLICATIONApproved
Householder

Approved on 9 October 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of bay window at ground floor level to the front elevation and construction of a basement level

Received
16 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hatfield Villages
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated17 Jan
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 265 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Cromer House Marford Road Lemsford Welwyn Garden City AL8 7XD. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 2,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 266 days, 30 weeks longer than Welwyn Hatfield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 7XD
Application type
HOUSEHOLDER APPLICATION
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hatfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 January 2025
Consultation expiry
25 September 2025
Consultation end
25 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Avebury House 6 St Peter Street Winchester SO23 8BN

Publicity

Site notice end
22 February 2025

Additional information

UPRN
200003859212
Documents
1

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.

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Source: Welwyn Hatfield

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