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Tesco Heart Building Car Park Shire Park Welwyn Garden City AL7 1TW

6/2026/1458/FULLFULL PERMISSIONApproved
Full

Approved on 15 October 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of one padel tennis court as an additional ancillary sporting and recreational facility to the Tesco office headquarters, together with associated floodlighting, and hard landscaping works.

Received
19 August 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Haldens
  1. Received19 Aug
  2. Validated20 Aug
  3. Consult.15 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Tesco Heart Building Car Park Shire Park Welwyn Garden City AL7 1TW. Welwyn Hatfield has handled 2,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Haldens. We hold 714 applications in total for the AL7 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
AL7 1TW
Application type
FULL PERMISSION

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 August 2026
Consultation expiry
15 September 2026
Consultation end
15 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Minster Building 21 Mincing Lane London EC3R 7AG
Applicant company

Tesco plc

Company number 00445790

Status
Active
Type
Public limited company
Incorporated
27 Nov 1947 (78 years old)
Nature of business
Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
Registered office
Welwyn Garden City

17 other planning applications by this company in North Somerset, BCP, Milton Keynes and 9 more councils.

  • PLN/2026/2139 · Milton Keynes · 2 ST LEGER COURT, GREAT LINFORD, MILTON KEYNES, MK14 5HA
  • PLN/2026/2167 · Milton Keynes · 2 ST LEGER COURT, GREAT LINFORD, MILTON KEYNES, MK14 5HA
  • 26/P/1973/FUL · North Somerset · 3 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AS
  • 26/P/1684/FUL · North Somerset · 3 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AS
  • 26/P/1685/ADV · North Somerset · 3 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AS
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Company information from Companies House.

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Edd Evans

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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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