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Land at Pooleys Lane Welham Green AL9 7LQ

6/2025/0871/OUTLINEOUTLINE PERMISSIONApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 August 2026

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee26 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline application for up to 80 dwellings with all matters reserved except access

Received
12 May 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Welham Green & Hatfield South
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 470 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land at Pooleys Lane Welham Green AL9 7LQ. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 470 days, 59 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 46 applications across Welham Green & Hatfield South. We hold 277 applications in total for the AL9 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
AL9 7LQ
Application type
OUTLINE PERMISSION
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
80
Parish
North Mymms

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2025
Consultation expiry
27 January 2026
Consultation end
27 January 2026
Committee meeting
12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Jedd Goodwin-Roberts

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
9 July 2025
Site notice end
23 July 2025

Additional information

UPRN
200003860507

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Welwyn HatfieldPart of the site
  • 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

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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