Ripple East , Bow Lane , Ripple , Worcestershire, GL20 6EY Data via plota.co.uk

26/000035/DIS - Discharge of Condition(s) Approved

Proposal

Extraction of sand and gravel with proposed restoration to agricultural and nature conservation, including ponds, wetlands, Hedgerows and lowland mixed deciduous woodland and meadows. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
9 Feb 2026
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Validated
3 Mar 2026
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Approved
1 Jul 2026

Approved on 1 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 26 Oct 2026

Documents 21

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Site constraints 6

Public footpath about 9 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), 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.
Scheduled monument about 127 m away: Ripple village cross
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
12 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Radon affected area, class 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 18 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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

Application type
Discharge of Condition(s)
Postcode
GL20 6EY
Received
9 Feb 2026
Validated
3 Mar 2026
Case officer
Show
Decision
Permitted
Decision date
1 Jul 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 120 days from validation, 72 days slower than Worcestershire County Council's median of 48 for discharge of conditions. Approved, as 100% of discharge of conditions here are.

82%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
12decided in the last year

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