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Phocle Farm New Road Phocle Green Herefordshire HR9 7TW

P260446/PA6(Part 3) Class R - Prior ApprovalApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 16 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval is Required

Proposal

Prior approval application for the change of use of an agricultural building to a flexible use falling with Class B8 (Storage and Distribution).

Received
12 February 2026
Ward
Old Gore
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.12 Mar
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Phocle Farm New Road Phocle Green Herefordshire HR9 7TW. Herefordshire has handled 31 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 weeks quicker than Herefordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Old Gore. We hold 4,980 applications in total for the HR9 postcode area.

100% of (part 3) class r - prior approval 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
HR9 7TW
Application type
(Part 3) Class R - Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upton Bishop

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2026
Consultation expiry
12 March 2026
Consultation start
17 February 2026
Consultation end
12 March 2026
Last date for comments
12 March 2026
Target decision date
9 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Berrys Shiretown House 41-43 Broad Street Hereford Herefordshire HR4 9AR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
12

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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