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M/25/01737/HP - Householder Planning Refused

Proposal

Two-story extension on the northwest elevation. Insertion of dormers in the southeast elevation. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
4 Nov 2025
✓
Validated
10 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
22 Dec 2025
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 22 Dec 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Documents 22

Other documents 2

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Mill House, Grade II, about 5 m from the postcode pin
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.
Historic England ↗
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.
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
Priority habitat about 28 m away: Traditional orchard.
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 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
Householder Planning
Postcode
WR6 5NU
Received
4 Nov 2025
Validated
10 Nov 2025
Ward
Martley Ward
Parish
Wichenford CP
Case officer
Show
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
22 Dec 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Berry and Young

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 13 days faster than Malvern Hills's median of 55 for householder applications. Refused, as 11% of householder applications here are.

85%decided within 8 weeks
89%approved
304decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
11 Nov 2025
Comments by
10 Dec 2025
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