Farm Buildings At (Os 8203 3834) Hill End Farm Longdon Hill End Upton Upon Severn Data via plota.co.uk

M/26/00142/GPDQ - GPDQ - agricultural to C3 dwellinghouse Refused
AgriculturalChange of useNew homes

Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for the proposed change of use of an agricultural building to 1 dwelling house (Class C3), and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
30 Jan 2026
✗
Refused
12 Mar 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 12 Mar 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 15 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Public footpath about 1 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 3b
Not 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) agrees.
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 Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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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Farm Buildings At (Os 8203 3834) Hill End Farm Longdon Hill End Upton Upon Severn

Notification for Prior Approval for the proposed change of use of an agricultura...

M/26/01439/GPDQ

Important details

Council
Malvern Hills
Application type
GPDQ - agricultural to C3 dwellinghouse
Received
30 Jan 2026
Validated
30 Jan 2026
Ward
Longdon Ward
Parish
Longdon CP
Case officer
Show
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
12 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Carver Knowles

How this decision compares

Decided in 41 days from validation, about the council's usual 41 days. Refused, as 16% of agricultural works here are.

76%decided within 8 weeks
84%approved
52decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Malvern Hills in the last twelve months, from validation. Malvern Hills decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
2 Feb 2026
Comments by
2 Mar 2026
Malvern Hills
Planning Authority Score
5.5/10
Average
#120 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings