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The Old School House Suckley Road Leigh Worcester WR6 5LE

M/23/00697/FULFull planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 17 August 2023

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of a replacement dwelling, including associated landscaping works.

Received
17 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Alfrick, Leigh & Rushwick Ward
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated22 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Old School House Suckley Road Leigh Worcester WR6 5LE. Malvern Hills has handled 1,246 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than Malvern Hills's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Alfrick, Leigh & Rushwick Ward. We hold 1,910 applications in total for the WR6 postcode area.

90% of full applications at Malvern Hills District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WR6 5LE
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leigh CP, Bransford CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 June 2023
Consultation expiry
24 July 2023
Consultation start
26 June 2023
Consultation end
24 July 2023
Last date for comments
15 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Balcones Hanley Swan WR8 0DN

Appeal

Appeal reference
APP/J1860/W/23/3328922
Appeal date
27 November 2023
Appeal result
Dismissed
Appeal decision date
24 April 2024

Appeal history

3328922
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 24 April 2024Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
37

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: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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: Malvern Hills

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