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Isabel Hospice Howlands Welwyn Garden City AL7 4GN

6/2025/2544/LAWPLAWFUL DEVELOPMENT - PROPOSEDRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 24 February 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for a single storey infill extension to hospice to create new store. Alterations to fenestration, installation of 5 rooflights, repainting and reconfiguration of car park line markings, installation of four EV charging points and lockable 10-space cycle store with the removal of a small central island within the car park

Received
10 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Howlands
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated30 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at Isabel Hospice Howlands Welwyn Garden City AL7 4GN. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 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 43 applications across Howlands. We hold 715 applications in total for the AL7 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
AL7 4GN
Application type
LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT - PROPOSED

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 December 2025
Consultation expiry
6 January 2026
Consultation end
6 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
85 Great Portland Street London W1W 7LT

Additional information

UPRN
10024372148

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Welwyn Garden City - Former QEII Hospital HowlandsRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 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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