Elite Plastics Twyford Road Rotherwas Hereford Herefordshire HR2 6JR Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Extension to factory (B2 - General Industrial). Data via plota.co.uk

View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
24 Jun 2026
✓
Approved
19 Aug 2026

Approved on 19 Aug 2026 · Last checked 6 Sept 2026

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Also on the record
Scheduled monument 167 m away: Lower Bullingham deserted medieval village; Radon affected area, class 2; Inside the Hereford built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Herefordshire - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Important details

Application type
Planning Permission
Postcode
HR2 6JR
Received
24 Jun 2026
Validated
24 Jun 2026
Ward
Dinedor Hill
Parish
Lower Bullingham
Target decision
19 Aug 2026
Decision
Approved with Conditions
Decision date
19 Aug 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 95% of commercial and major works here are.

51%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
54decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Herefordshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Herefordshire decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
6 Jul 2026
Comments by
9 Aug 2026
Site or press notice
6 Jul 2026
Herefordshire
Planning Authority Score
3.3/10
Poor
#224 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Herefordshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #250 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 60% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Herefordshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #56 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #79 of 296
46%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #250 of 296
60%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #269 of 296
89%
Minor dwellings approved
278 decided (1-9 homes)
67%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
104 decided
1,406
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026