Land adjacent to 9 Birch Meadow Worcester WR5 2FW Data via plota.co.uk

26/00733/PIP - Permission in Principle Refused
New homes

Proposal

Permission in Principle for a proposed dwelling. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
11 Aug 2026
✗
Refused
11 Sept 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 11 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 16 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Registered battlefield: Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Air quality management area: Worcester City (Political Boundary)
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the Worcester 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
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

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Important details

Council
Worcester
Application type
Permission in Principle
Postcode
WR5 2FW
Received
11 Aug 2026
Validated
11 Aug 2026
Ward
Battenhall Ward
Parish
Worcester City
Case officer
Show
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
11 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Greenaway Planning Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 31 days from validation, 36 days faster than Worcester's median of 67 for outline applications. Refused, as 41% of outline applications here are.

42%decided within 8 weeks
59%approved
12%go to committee

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
12 Aug 2026
Comments by
26 Aug 2026

Historical activity at this location

6 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2025 Approved
Birch Meadow WORCESTER WR5 2FW
Approval of details reserved under condition 19 ( cycle storage) of planning permission P…
25/00037/DOC
2022 Approved
20 Birch Meadow WORCESTER WR5 2FW
Proposed double garage extension at front of property.
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2022 Approved
20 Birch Meadow WORCESTER WR5 2FW
Proposed double garage extension at front of property.
22/00994/HP
2022 Approved
16 Birch Meadow WORCESTER WR5 2FW
A single-door garage extension.
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2022 Approved
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A single-door garage extension.
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Worcester
Planning Authority Score
5.6/10
Average
#117 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Worcester is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #73 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) 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
Worcester decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
85%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #214 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #185 of 296
76%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #73 of 296
38%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #137 of 296
59%
Minor dwellings approved
41 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
3 decided (10+ homes)
85%
Change of use approved
41 decided
427
Total decisions
62 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings