Designated Neighbourhood Plan Areas

Welwyn Parish Council is in the process of producing a Neighbourhood Plan for Welwyn Parish.

The whole of the geographic area of Welwyn Parish was designated as the Neighbourhood Plan Area on 11 September 2020. Welwyn Parish Council was the relevant body that applied for designation.

Welwyn Parish Neighbouthood Plan map

Progress on Welwyn Neighbourhood Plan

Consultation on pre-submission Neighbourhood Plan (Regulation 14)

Welwyn Parish Council consulted on the pre-submission version of the Welwyn Parish neighbourhood plan between 8 May and 28 June 2024, under Regulation 14 of The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (As Amended).

View the pre-submission version of the plan

Next Steps

The next stage of preparing the Welwyn Neighbourhood Plan is to submit the submission version of the plan and supporting documents to Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council as the Local Planning Authority (Regulation 15).  A public consultation will be carried out by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (Regulation 16) and examination of the plan by an independent examiner will then follow (Regulation 17).

Following the examination, the Examiner will issue his final report. The Borough Council as the Local Planning Authority must then decide what action to take in response to each of the examiner's recommendations, including whether to progress the plan to a referendum. 

Further information on the progress of the Welwyn neighbourhood plan is available on the Welwyn Parish Council website