Neighbourhood Plan Supporting Documents
Evidence Base Documents: material compiled during the production of the Plan, to provide the evidence required to justify parts of the Plan, are available from the menu above.
Supporting Documents: material not from WPC and published independently from the NP by others. These documents were used in the compilation of the NP and provide useful reference material. For most items, click on the title of the document to download a .pdf version; for the 2021 Census results, please visit the website quoted.
Digswell Character Appraisal (2004) published by WHBC and adopted as supplementary planning guidance; a consultancy report on the Digswell area exploring it in fine detail.
Welwyn Village Conservation Area Report – CAAMP (2023) published by WHBC following their 2022/23 Review (the conservation area was originally adopted in 1968); other than minor changes it continues to include the core centre of the village and the variety of buildings, spaces and streetscapes that make it unique.
Welwyn – A Village Appraisal (1978) compiled by the Welwyn Planning & Amenity Group, as a contribution to the version of the District Plan then being prepared (for Welwyn Hatfield District Council before it changed to become a Borough Council).
Welwyn Parish Plan (2008) published by WPC. In many ways this valuable document is a precursor to this Neighbourhood Plan.
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Local Plan (2016) approved and published in its final form in October 2023. This final version includes all the changes made to comply with the Inspector’s direction to achieve “sustainable” status. There are supplementary documents available from here, or https://www.welhat.gov.uk/homepage/36/local-plan and the many supporting reports (in the “EX” series of papers) available from https://www.welhat.gov.uk/local-plan-examination. Both the websites quoted are WHBC and not the responsibility of WPC.
The Case for a Local Landscape Designation (2022) prepared by David Rixson and published by Tewin Parish Council; a compilation of evidence to support a local landscape designation of the area of the Mimram valley lying within Tewin Parish. WPC are working in partnership with the author and other parish councils through which the river flows.
2021 Census results published by The Office for National Statistics. For more information please visit: https://www.ons.gov.uk/census. Note that at April 2021 when the Survey Report and the NP were first compiled, the full detail used for the Plan and Evidence Base was not readily available from the Census web site. The numbers used in the documents were compiled by the WHBC Planning Department specifically for the NP, from analysis and filtering of the main dataset. Fully-analysed and compiled data down to parish level is now becoming available.
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