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St Michaels Church Michaelchurch Escley Hereford Herefordshire HR2 0JW

P242968/FPlanning PermissionApproved
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Approved on 21 May 2026

Council decision: Approved with Conditions4 conditions

Proposal

Proposed to repair the top 2 feet of retaining wall surrounding stone steps leading to a disused cellar and installing a lockable metal gatehorizontally over the entrance.

Submitted
22 January 2025
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 484 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at St Michaels Church Michaelchurch Escley Hereford Herefordshire HR2 0JW. Herefordshire has handled 13,455 applications of this type. This one was decided in 484 days, 61 weeks longer than Herefordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Golden Valley South. We hold 6,432 applications in total for the HR2 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
HR2 0JW
Application type
Planning Permission

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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