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6/2025/2102/COND - APPROVAL OF DETAILS RESERVED BY CONDITION Decided

Proposal

Submission of details pursuant to conditions 1a-e (Site Characterisation, Remediation Scheme, Implementation of Approved Remediation Scheme, Reporting of Unexpected Contamination, Long Term Monitoring and Maintenance), & 2 (Tree Protection Plan and an Arboricultural Method Statement) on planning permission Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
2 Oct 2025
Validated
7 Oct 2025
Part Discharged
11 Mar 2026

Part Discharged on 11 Mar 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 9 Sept 2026

Documents 15

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Site constraints 2

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.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

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Important details

Application type
APPROVAL OF DETAILS RESERVED BY CONDITION
Postcode
EN6 4AY
Received
2 Oct 2025
Validated
7 Oct 2025
Parish
Northaw and Cuffley
Case officer
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Decision
Part Discharged
Decision date
11 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
L W Developments Ltd

Public comments

2comments received

Last counted 9 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by
16 Mar 2026
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