Land Adjacent 3 Popes Lane Astwood Bank Worcestershire Data via plota.co.uk

26/01224/OUT - Outline Application Pending Consideration

Proposal

Outline Planning Permission (All Matters Reserved) except for access for the erection of up to 5 dwellings and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
20 Oct 2026
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Consultation
27 Oct 2026
Decision
Expected by 15 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 14 Dec 2026, from Bromsgrove Redditch's recent outline applications.

Comments are open until 20 Nov 2026

Comment on this application ↗

Site constraints 2

Green belt: Birmingham
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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 4. 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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 28 October 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

Application type
Outline Application
Received
20 Oct 2026
Validated
20 Oct 2026
Ward
Astwood Bank And Feckenham Ward
Parish
Non-Civil Parish Or Community
Case officer
Show
Target decision
15 Dec 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
MSC Planning Associates Ltd.

Decision outlook

Day 9 of the 56-day target. Bromsgrove Redditch usually decides outline applications by day 55.

Day 947 days to the 56-day target
62%decided within 8 weeks
84%approved
107decided in the last year

Plota live figures for outline applications decided by Bromsgrove Redditch in the last twelve months, from validation. Bromsgrove Redditch decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

19 neighbours consulted · Last counted 28 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15274643
Planning Portal ref
PP-15274643
Neighbours
27 Oct 2026
Consultation
27 Oct 2026
Comments by
20 Nov 2026
Site or press notice
27 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
15 Dec 2026
Env. assessment
No