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Fromes Hill Sewage Treatment Works Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 1HT

P242261/NWasteApproved

Approved on 16 December 2025

Council decision: Approved with Conditions13 conditions

Proposal

Part Retrospective: Proposed extension to the operational area of Fromes Hill STW and the change of use of land to operational for sewage treatment purposes toaccommodate a new IRBC, a new reed bed including aeration pipework, a washwater pumping station including handrail, MCC kiosk and aeration blower plinth, IRBC Flow Collection Chamber, 1no. reed bed flow split chamber, an IRBC Storm Overflow Chamber including handrail, a Final Effluent Sample Chamber, a new access road and associated infrastructure and landscaping. (For BGP see 260010)

Received
4 September 2024
Ward
Bishops Frome & Cradley
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.2 May
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided16 Dec

Decided in 468 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Fromes Hill Sewage Treatment Works Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 1HT. Herefordshire has handled 96 applications of this type. This one was decided in 468 days, 59 weeks longer than Herefordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Bishops Frome & Cradley. We hold 2,624 applications in total for the HR8 postcode area.

94% of all 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
HR8 1HT
Application type
Waste
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Bishop's Frome

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2024
Consultation expiry
2 May 2025
Consultation start
19 September 2024
Consultation end
2 May 2025
Last date for comments
2 May 2025
Target decision date
14 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Fisher German The Estates Office Norman Court Ashby De La Zouch LE65 2UZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
436 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 September 2024

Additional information

Documents
72

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

Source: Herefordshire

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