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M/25/01833/GPDQ - GPDQ - agricultural to C3 dwellinghouse Approved

Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for the proposed change of use of an Agricultural Building To Form 2 Dwellings (Class C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 22:06

Application progress

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Received

14 Nov 2025

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Approved

16 Dec 2025

Approved on 16 Dec 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Documents 17

Site constraints 6

4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: The Jaylands, Grade II, about 19 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 3 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

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19 mThe JaylandsGrade II
24 mThe Village StoresGrade II
43 mChurch of St MichaelGrade II*
50 mThe RectoryGrade II

Historic England ↗

Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

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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.

Public footpath about 22 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Not affected

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

Checked on 8 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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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

Council: Malvern Hills
Application type: GPDQ - agricultural to C3 dwellinghouse
Received: 14 Nov 2025
Validated: 14 Nov 2025
Ward: Lindridge Ward
Parish: Pensax CP
Case officer: Show
Decision: Approval
Decision date: 16 Dec 2025
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Apse Building Design Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 32 days from validation, 6 days faster than Malvern Hills's median of 38 for prior approvals. Approved, as 80% of prior approvals here are.

This one32d

Council38d

UK34d

92%decided within 8 weeks

80%approved

92decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 19 Nov 2025
Comments by: 15 Dec 2025

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

Land At (Os 7272 6926) Pensax Abberley Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 17

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 5

Plans & drawings 3

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 2

Other documents 4

Site constraints 6

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Consultation & key dates