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5 Oakwell Drive Northaw Potters Bar EN6 4EZ

6/2025/2284/LAWELAWFUL DEVELOPMENT - EXISTINGApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 22 December 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the Meaningful Commencement of Development in Connection with Planning Permission ref: 6/2022/0821/FULL (Appeal Ref: APP/C1950/W/22/3307181)

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Northaw and Cuffley
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.15 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5 Oakwell Drive Northaw Potters Bar EN6 4EZ. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 65 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 96 applications across Northaw and Cuffley. We hold 3,356 applications in total for the EN6 postcode area.

72% of amendment 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
EN6 4EZ
Application type
LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT - EXISTING
Parish
Northaw and Cuffley

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2025
Consultation expiry
15 December 2025
Consultation end
15 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
21 Britten Road Penarth CF64 3QJ

Additional information

UPRN
200003855664

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

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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