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

This site has had 2 applications since 2025.

• 6/2025/2445/FULL Withdrawn

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

  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

  Decided 21 Jul 2026 Full applications

1. 19 Aug 2026

   Received by Welwyn Hatfield

2. 20 Aug 2026

   Validated

   Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

3. 31 Aug 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

4. 22 Sep 2026

   Status changed to Under Consideration

   Previously Under Consultation.

5. Decision

   Awaiting decision

   Decision expected by 15 October 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

   Welwyn Hatfield took a median of 58 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

This application is with Welwyn Hatfield for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Welwyn Hatfield decided full applications in a median of 102 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

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• 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  Withdrawn Full applications

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

  6/2024/1945/FULL Submitted 10 Oct 2024 50 yards away

  Erection of a Timpson's pod (Use Class E (a)) on the concourse outside the Tesco Heart Building

  Granted Full applications

• Tesco Checkout Kestrel Way Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA

  6/2023/0343/FULL Submitted 13 Feb 2023 100 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 250 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

• 11 Gresley Close Welwyn Garden City AL8 7QA

  6/2021/2021/HOUSE Submitted 2 Jul 2021 300 yards away

  Erection of a front porch infill extension and installation of front window to facilitate garage conversion.

  Granted Householder Extension Windows or glazing
  Small domestic

• 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