Concourse outside the Tesco Heart Building Shire Park Welwyn Garden City AL7 1TW

1. 10 Oct 2024

   Received by Welwyn Hatfield

2. 25 Nov 2024

   Validated

   Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

3. 20 Jan 2025

   Decision issued: Granted

4. 1 Oct 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

Welwyn Hatfield granted permission on 20 January 2025, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

A full application seeks permission for a complete, detailed proposal in one go, with siting, design, access and landscaping all fixed at this stage. More in our guide to planning application types.

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

  6/2025/2445/FULL Submitted 21 Nov 2025 50 yards away

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

  Withdrawn Full applications

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

  6/2026/1458/FULL Submitted 19 Aug 2026 50 yards away

  80% historically approved · decision due ~15 Oct

  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.

  Awaiting decision Full applications

• Tesco Checkout Kestrel Way Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA

  6/2023/0343/FULL Submitted 13 Feb 2023 150 yards away

  Installation of modular building (portacabin) with access ramp for use as mailroom (for wider Tesco campus), including removal of 28 car parking spaces to accommodate building and service area.

  Granted Full applications

• Shire Park Falcon Gate Falcon Way Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL7 1TW

  6/2024/1037/ADV Submitted 4 Jun 2024 300 yards away

  Installation of 1 x illuminated fascia sign,1 x unilluminated disabled parking sign, 1 x unilluminated colleague parking sign 1 x unilluminated patient parking sign

  Granted Advertising

• Times Square (former Xerox Campus) Bessemer Road Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GP

  6/2026/0685/COND Submitted 16 Apr 2026 300 yards away

  Submission of details pursuant to Condition 14 (ii) (sound insulation and attenuation scheme) and (iii) (Performance report of scheme) on planning permission 6/2015/2213/MAJ

  Granted Conditions

• Grass verge along Bessemer Road Bessemer Road Welwyn Garden City AL7 1ET

  6/2026/1411/PN15 Submitted 10 Aug 2026 350 yards away

  78% historically approved · decision due ~5 Oct

  Prior approval for the installation of 20m high Taurus Street pole with 9no antennas, 6no RRH and equipment housing, together with associated ancillary development

  Awaiting decision Prior approval

• 6/2026/1052/FULL Granted

  Unit 3 Woodside Lane Hatfield AL9 6DE

  Retention of an extension to the existing building and the erection of a rear extension following demolition of existing buildings (part retrospective)

  Received 17 Jun, published by the council 24 Jul 2026 Full applications
• 6/2026/1264/FULL Granted

  53 Brookmans Avenue Brookmans Park AL9 7QG

  Erection of dwelling with boundary wall and gates following demolition of existing property

  Received 17 Jul, published by the council 15 Aug 2026 Full applications
• 6/2026/1337/FULL Granted

  Royal Veterinary College Hawkshead Lane North Mymms AL9 7TA

  Relocation of the Transfusion Medicine Vet Pod and associated parking, landscaping and associated works

  Received 30 Jul, published by the council 9 Aug 2026 Full applications
• 6/2026/1689/MAJ Awaiting decision

  Howlands House Howlands Welwyn Garden City AL7 4QJ

  Erection of a single 3 and 4-storey building comprising 44 temporary accommodation homes, staff office and laundry facilities, children's play space, cycle and vehicular parking, associated servicing, plant enclosure, substation, landscaping and external works.

  Received 25 Sep, published by the council 1 Oct 2026 Full applications
• 6/2026/0952/FULL Granted

  18 Fallowfield Welwyn Garden City AL7 1EE

  Retrospective application for change of use from amenity land to residential land to form part hardstanding and part garden land at the front of the property and installation of a drop kerb

  Received 1 Jun, published by the council 24 Jul 2026 Full applications