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M/25/01877/CLPU - Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed use Refused

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness Development of proposed replacement doors and windows. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
21 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
16 Jan 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 16 Jan 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Site constraints 5

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.
Coal mining risk assessments ↗
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.
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 ↗
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: North Lodge, Grade II, about 55 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 ↗
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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £466,000 in June 2025. Semi-detached house, freehold.

20 June 2025£466,000
5 July 2017£200,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area128 m² (1,378 sq ft)
Energy ratingE (51 out of 100), could reach C
PropertySemi-detached house, 6 habitable rooms
BuiltBefore 1900
HeatingAir source heat pump, radiators, electric
WallsSolid brick, as built, no insulation (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in July 2020, the latest held for this property, matched to this application by its address. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed use
Postcode
WR6 6AS
Received
21 Nov 2025
Validated
21 Nov 2025
Ward
Baldwin Ward
Parish
Abberley CP
Case officer
Show
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
16 Jan 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
BIG.SMALL.SPACE

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 53 days. Refused, as 22% of lawful development certificates here are.

91%decided within 8 weeks
78%approved
87decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
24 Nov 2025
Comments by
15 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

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.