New housing in North Hertfordshire District Council
We read North Hertfordshire District Council's planning register every day. We hold 27,080 of its planning applications going back to 2011, and 107 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 75% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below 85%, so it must add a 20% buffer to its housing land supply.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 75% (2025): buffer
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 27,080
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 92 | 10 | 11 |
| 2025 | 75 | 5 | 12 |
| 2024 | 73 | 4 | 18 |
| 2023 | 80 | 2 | 20 |
| 2022 | 78 | 2 | 10 |
| 2021 | 75 | 2 | 11 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,200 | BA1(Land East Of North Rd And North Of Railway Line); BA10(Land Between Railway Line And Royston Rd; BA3 (Land West Of A505); BA2 (Land South Of Clothall Rd); Walls Field; Urban Open Land West Of A505, And Land West Of North Rd, Baldock Up to c. 3,200 homes; up to 16 hectares of employment land; strategic 'green infrastructure'; a mixed use local centre; education provision; and associated infrastructure; waste infrastructure. Site: Growing Baldock… 24/00920/SCOP | At appeal | 25 Apr 2024 |
| 900 | Land To The East Of High Street And North Road And West Of Ten Acre Plantation High Street Graveley Hertfordshire Outline planning application with all matters reserved other than means of access, for the erection of up to 900 dwellings (including affordable housing and self/custom build units), provision of a primary school… 23/02935/OP | At appeal | 21 Dec 2023 |
| 281 | Land At Roundwood Back Lane Graveley Hertfordshire Residential development of 281 dwellings and associated roads, parking, realignment of Back Lane, drainage, landscaping, open space, servicing facilities and associated works (as amended). 24/02889/FP | At appeal | 19 Dec 2024 |
| 240 | Central Approach Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3DL Screening Opinion (Regulation 6) for a proposed development comprising of the demolition of the existing buildings and delivery of up to 240 dwellings (Class C3) and 1,859 sqm (Class E) floorspace (predominantly in… 26/02639/SO | At appeal | 15 Oct 2026 |
| 219 | Land Surrounding Burloes Cottages Newmarket Road Royston Hertfordshire Reserved matters application for 219 dwellings, seeking approval of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale, together with emergency and pedestrian/cycle access from Burloes Hall Drive pursuant to planning permission… 26/02331/RM | At appeal | 15 Sept 2026 |
| 150 | Land Off London Road Woolmer Green Knebworth Hertfordshire SG3 6JZ Outline planning application for the erection of up to 150 residential dwellings with the provision of affordable housing, public open space, landscaping, sustainable drainage system (SuDS) and vehicular access point.… 25/01358/ADJ | At appeal | 21 May 2025 |
| 140 | Land Between Royston Road And Cambridge Road Barkway Hertfordshire Approval of reserved matters (access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for the erection of 140 residential dwellings with associated landscaping, highways, drainage, public open space and ancillary… 25/03149/RM | Approved | 12 Dec 2025 |
| 130 | Land South East Of Holwell Road And North Of Hambridge Way, Pirton Herts Outline application for the erection of up to 130 dwellings with public open space, landscaping, sustainable drainage system (SuDS), and associated works with all matters reserved save for access (additional supporting… 25/01696/OP | At appeal | 16 Jul 2025 |
| 120 | Land To The East Of Talbot Way And Kristiansand Way And Flint Road Allotments Flint Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 1TY Reserved matters application for approval of layout, scale and appearance of buildings and landscaping pursuant of outline permission 21/00504/OP granted 03.04.2025 for residential development comprising of up to 120… 25/03084/RM | Approved | 18 Dec 2025 |
| 100 | Land South Of Turnpike Lane Ickleford Hertfordshire Erection of up to 100 dwellings with means of access from Turnpike Lane including associated landscaping, drainage, car parking; infrastructure and all ancillary and enabling works following demolition of all existing… 25/02401/OP | At appeal | 18 Sept 2025 |
Fields people have checked here
5 fields in North Hertfordshire District Council have been checked on Check That Field. These are the fields people chose to look at, not a sample of all the land here.
| Likelihood of being built on | Fields |
|---|---|
| Low | 1 |
| Moderate | 4 |
| High | 0 |
| Very High | 0 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Ashwell
- Baldock
- Barkway
- Barley
- Blackmore End (North Hertfordshire)
- Breachwood Green
- Codicote
- Gosmore
- Great Offley
- Hitchin
- Holwell (North Hertfordshire)
- Ickleford
- Kimpton
- Knebworth
- Letchworth
- Little Wymondley
- Pirton
- Preston (North Hertfordshire)
- Reed
- Royston (North Hertfordshire)
- Rush Green
- St Ippolyts
- Therfield
- Weston (North Hertfordshire)
- Whitwell (North Hertfordshire)
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: North Hertfordshire District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.