Land to The South of Bulls Lane Welham Green Hatfield AL9 7PE Data via plota.co.uk

6/2025/2337/OUTLINE - OUTLINE PERMISSION Approved at committee

Approved at planning committee on 25 June 2026, subject to a legal agreement. The council issues its decision notice once the agreement is signed.

Proposal

Outline permission for the erection of up to 60 dwellings (Use Class C3) with all matters reserved except for access Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

5 Nov 2025

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Committee

25 Jun 2026

Decision notice

Not issued yet

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 25 Jul 2026; it is now day 358.

The consultation period closed on 25 Jul 2026.

Planning committee

Decided by Welwyn Hatfield Development Management Committee on 25 Jun 2026. Earlier deferred on 12 Mar 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved by 5 votes to 4

For5

Against4

Officers advised approval because housing, affordable homes and other benefits outweighed identified heritage, landscape and flood-related harm.
The agent supported the scheme, while residents, the parish council and a councillor argued that green belt, heritage, ecology and highways concerns remained.
Members voted 5–4 to approve, subject to conditions, obligations and checking whether late evidence raised new material considerations.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officer assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Welwyn Hatfield's committee minutes of 25 Jun 2026.

Documents 237

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 17 Dec 2025 View ↗

Statements & assessments 18

PDF i-Transport Note - Bulls Lane, Welham Green_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 15 Jul 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 7

PDF 260416 Welham Green_00550C_Parameter Plan Building Heights_PP_03 Rev 02.pdf (0 kb) Document · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF 260416 Welham Green_00550C_Parameter Plan GI_PP_02 Rev 02.pdf (0 kb) Document · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF 260416 Welham Green_00550C_Parameter Plan Land Use_PP_01 Rev 02.pdf (0 kb) Document · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF site plan re response to planning application..pdf (0 kb) Document · 23 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF 00550C_Parameter Plan Land Use_PP_01.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 00550C_Parameter Plan Green Infrastructure_PP_02.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 00550C_Parameter Plan Building Heights_PP_03.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 143

PDF Response_6-2025-2337-OUTLINE(3).pdf (0 kb) Document · 15 Jul 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗

PDF LPA Reference_ 6_2025_2337_OUTLINE No Comment (below threshold) Response.pdf (0 kb) Document · 18 Jun 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 12 May 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 17 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 16 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Comments-Redacted(39)_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 16 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 16 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 14 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Document · 2 Dec 2025 View ↗

Other documents 67

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗

PDF AT Coombes Note - Bulls Lane, Welham Green_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF JTP Note - Bulls Lane, Welham Green_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF 260804 CONS Non intervention letter to LPA_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF 1_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 31 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Skimpans letter to SoS Rt Hon A Raynor MP 22072026_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗ IMG Badger near Bulls Lane with geo-tracking.jpg (0 kb) Document · 1 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Skimpans Farm - bats (March 2026)(1).mp4 (0 kb) Document · 1 Jul 2026 View ↗

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Document · 1 Jul 2026 View ↗

PDF Wildlife photos relevant to DMC meeting speech 25-Jun-26_Redacted(1).pdf (0 kb) Document · 1 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Barker Parry report - Review of LSO Bulls Lane Application (1)_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 1 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Bulls-Lane-land-south-of-Welham-Green-CPRE-Hertfordshire-2026-01-09- (2).pdf (0 kb) Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗

PDF Extract from Barker Parry report - Review of LSO Bulls Lane Application - page 14 onwards_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Skimpans Farm - bats (March 2026).mp4 (0 kb) Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Wildlife photos relevant to DMC meeting speech 25-Jun-26_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 28 May 2026 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗

PDF 260416 Welham Green_00550C_Site Location_S_01_P2.pdf (0 kb) Document · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF 260420 FINAL Lane South of Bulls Lane - updated application plans_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Skimpans Farm 6 2025 2337 OUTLINE_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 26 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF 620252337OUTLINE - LLFA 21.01.2026(1).pdf (0 kb) Document · 2 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Place Services _Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 25 Feb 2026 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 24 Feb 2026 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 15 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Application number 6 2025 2337 OUTLINE.pdf (0 kb) Document · 14 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 12 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF Name hidden Show Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗

PDF 251104 FINAL Welham Green cover letter_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 5308.EcIA.vf_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 250425 Phase 1 Contaminated Land Geotechnical Report.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF CCE L631 UWA-02(1).pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 251104 FINAL Welham Green Planning Scope and Written Parameters_Redacted.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 251103 Welham Green_ITS200547-007C Travel Plan_FINAL.pdf (0 kb) Document · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

Read the government guidance ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

2 listed buildings within 150 m; SSSI 260 m away: Water End Swallow Holes SSSI.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Welwyn Hatfield
Application type: OUTLINE PERMISSION
Postcode: AL9 7PE
Received: 5 Nov 2025
Validated: 5 Nov 2025
Parish: North Mymms
Case officer: Show
Decision level: Committee
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 358, past the statutory target. 63% of outline applications in Welwyn Hatfield are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 21 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 358267 days past the 91-day target

41%decided within 8 weeks

59%approved

12%go to committee

Plota live figures for outline applications decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent outline applications in Welwyn Hatfield to go on. Welwyn Hatfield decision record →

Public comments

130comments received

16 objecting114 neutral

12% object · below the UK average of 74%

134 neighbours consulted · Last counted 21 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 25 Jul 2026
Committee: 25 Jun 2026

Historical activity at this location

3 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Withdrawn

Skimpans Farmhouse Bulls Lane Hatfield AL9 7PE

Subdivision of existing dwelling into five separate residential dwellings for occupants a…

6/2025/0838/FULL 27 Jun 2025

2025 Withdrawn

Skimpans Farmhouse Bulls Lane Hatfield AL9 7PE

Subdivision of existing dwelling into five separate residential dwellings for occupants a…

6/2025/0838/FULL 27 Jun 2025

2018 Approved

5 Meadow Close Welham Green Hatfield AL9 7NZ

Erection of single storey front extension, single storey rear extension and garage conver…

6/2018/0252/HOUSE 5 Apr 2018

Welwyn Hatfield

Planning Authority Score

2.1/10

Poor

#272 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

Welwyn Hatfield is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #224 out of 296. 50% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Welwyn Hatfield decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

86%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #200 of 296

86%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #246 of 296

53%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #224 of 296

50%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #229 of 296

84%

Minor dwellings approved

63 decided (1-9 homes)

83%

Major dwellings approved

12 decided (10+ homes)

73%

Change of use approved

22 decided

633

Total decisions

87 refused in the year to March 2026