Oaker Wood Leisure Oaker Wood Yarpole Leominster Herefordshire HR6 9PT
Refused on 20 March 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Refused1 reason for refusal
Proposal
Application for prior notification of forestry track. .
- Received
- 27 February 2026
- Council
- Herefordshire Council
- Ward
- Bircher
- ReceivedReceived27 Feb
- ValidatedValidated27 Feb
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date26 Mar
- DecidedDecided20 Mar
Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a planning application at Oaker Wood Leisure Oaker Wood Yarpole Leominster Herefordshire HR6 9PT. Herefordshire has handled 1,692 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Herefordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Bircher. We hold 5,202 applications in total for the HR6 postcode area.
93% of all others - 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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Why it was refused
- A previous application (DCN060878/U) confirmed that use of the land had been used for leisure for the previous 10 years and a Lawful Development Certificate was provided to confirm this. Therefore the land is not considered to be used specifically for the purposes of forestry and as such permitted development rights as outline within Part 6, Class E of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) 2015 no longer apply. Planning permission is therefore required.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- HR6 9PT
- Application type
- All others - Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Kingsland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 3 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 3 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 26 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Chalford Silviculture Ltd New House Farm Nordan Leominster Herefordshire HR6 0AJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 27 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 3 March 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Wye SAC (River Lugg SSSI)Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Ancient woodland: Oaker Wood
- 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 (20)
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, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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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