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Land East of Colesdale Farm Cuffley

6/2025/2131/OUTLINEOUTLINE PERMISSIONRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of a residential development of up to 35 dwellings, with all matters reserved for subsequent approval except for a new vehicular access from Northaw Road East.

Received
6 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Northaw and Cuffley
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at Land East of Colesdale Farm Cuffley. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 516 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 6 October 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 98 applications across Northaw and Cuffley.

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Application details

Application type
OUTLINE PERMISSION
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
35
Parish
Northaw and Cuffley

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 March 2026
Consultation end
5 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Second Floor 17 The Broadway Old Hatfield AL9 5HZ

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
3 December 2025
Site notice end
2 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Welwyn Hatfield
  • Brownfield land register: Rural South - Colesdale FarmRegister site at or near this address

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 (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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