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Upper House Cottage Castle Road Richards Castle Herefordshire SY8 4ER

P231367/FPlanning PermissionApproved
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Approved on 16 November 2023

12 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed conversion of a redundant agricultural to two residential dwellings. Vehicle access will be provided via implemented scheme granted under P170062/F.

Submitted
28 April 2023
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Nov

Decided in 202 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Upper House Cottage Castle Road Richards Castle Herefordshire SY8 4ER. Herefordshire has handled 13,455 applications of this type. This one was decided in 202 days, 21 weeks longer than Herefordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Bircher. We hold 2,989 applications in total for the SY8 postcode area.

92% of planning permission applications at Herefordshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY8 4ER
Application type
Planning Permission

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    28 Apr

    Proposed conversion of a redundant agricultural to two residential dwellings. Vehicle access will be provided…

    This applicationApprovedPlanning PermissionP231367/F
  2. 2022
    16 May

    Proposed conversion of a redundant agricultural barn on the property, to two three-bed dwellings, and parking…

    WithdrawnPlanning PermissionRelatedP221610/F
  3. 2017
    2 Feb

    Conversion of a redundant agricultural building to form a dwelling. (For DOC 3,8,10 & 13 see 181083.)

    ApprovedPlanning PermissionPart ofP170062/F

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