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M/26/00617/CAN - Tree works within a conservation area Decided

Proposal

Undertake tree works as detailed on the application form and any other accompanying information. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 6 Sept 2026, 16:51

Application progress

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Received

19 Apr 2026

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Decided

Decided on · Delegated · Last checked 6 Sept 2026

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Site constraints 3

Malvern Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Malvern Hills
Application type: Tree works within a conservation area
Postcode: WR14 4JL
Received: 19 Apr 2026
Validated: 19 Apr 2026
Ward: Castlemorton, Welland & Wells Ward
Parish: Little Malvern CP
Case officer: Show
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Lt Col James Sweetman

Malvern Hills

Planning Authority Score

5.5/10

Average

#120 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other decisions

Malvern Hills is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #45 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (87%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Malvern Hills decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

82%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #251 of 296

87%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #232 of 296

79%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #45 of 296

37%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #121 of 296

57%

Minor dwellings approved

148 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

17 decided (10+ homes)

86%

Change of use approved

35 decided

744

Total decisions

131 refused in the year to March 2026