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Land At (Os 8716 3766) Bow Lane Ripple

M/25/00288/CMCounty mattersApproved

Approved on 28 May 2025

Council decision: AdviceExternal

Proposal

County Matter consultation by WCC) Proposed extraction of sand and gravel with restoration to agriculture and nature conservation, including ponds, wetlands, hedgerows and lowland mixed deciduous woodland and meadows.

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
External
Ward
Upton & Ripple Ward
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.12 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 May

Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Land At (Os 8716 3766) Bow Lane Ripple. Malvern Hills has handled 175 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Malvern Hills's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Upton & Ripple Ward.

88% of all 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

Application type
County matters
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ripple CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Consultation expiry
12 March 2025
Consultation start
26 February 2025
Consultation end
12 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Directorate of Economy and Infrastructure County Hall Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NP

Additional information

Documents
7

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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