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M/26/00929/OL - Overhead Lines Decision - Other

Proposal

Upgrade pole mounted transformer and change H-Pole from 12 M medium to 12M stouts. Upgrade the low Voltage open wire and change any defective pole or stays. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 6 Sept 2026, 12:15

Application progress

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Received

14 Jun 2026

Decision

Target date was 9 Aug 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 137.

Documents

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Site constraints 8

Malvern Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

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.

SSSI about 6 m away: The Malvern Hills SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Scheduled monument about 81 m away: Midsummer Hill Camp See also HEREFORDSHIRE 4

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 ↗

Habitat network: Sssi

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 4; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Priority habitat about 7 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 17 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

Council: Malvern Hills
Application type: Overhead Lines
Received: 14 Jun 2026
Validated: 14 Jun 2026
Ward: Castlemorton, Welland & Wells Ward, Longdon Ward
Parish: Castlemorton CP, Berrow CP
Case officer: Show
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 137, past the statutory target. 87% of other in Malvern Hills are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 6 Sept 2026.

target

predicted

Day 13781 days past the 56-day target

69%decided within 8 weeks

95%approved

2,189decided in the last year

Plota live figures for other decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent other in Malvern Hills to go on. Malvern Hills decision record →

Malvern Hills

Planning Authority Score

5.5/10

Average

#120 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

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