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36 Suckley Road Leigh Worcester WR6 5LE

M/25/01083/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 6 October 2025

Council decision: RefusalPlanning committee1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Permission in Principle application for the construction of up to three dwellings and associated works, with the retention of the existing dwelling.

Received
10 July 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Alfrick, Leigh & Rushwick Ward
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated15 Jul
  3. Consult.31 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 36 Suckley Road Leigh Worcester WR6 5LE. Malvern Hills has handled 213 applications of this type. This one was decided in 88 days, 5 weeks longer than Malvern Hills's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications 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.

62% of outline 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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Why it was refused

  1. Future occupiers of the proposed development would be poorly connected to key services by sustainable travel modes and heavily reliant on a motor vehicle due to the location of the application site in relation to key residential amenities, the poor standard of the local walking and cycling environment, and the limited nature of local bus services. Therefore, the proposed development would occupy an unsustainable location, contrary to Policies SWDP 2 and SWDP 4 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (2016), Policy LB/H/2 of the Leigh and Bransford Neighbourhood Plan (2022) and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
WR6 5LE
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bransford CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 July 2025
Consultation expiry
31 July 2025
Consultation start
17 July 2025
Consultation end
31 July 2025
Committee meeting
1 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Millridge Farm Parsons Lane Hartlebury Worcestershire DY11 7YQ

Appeal history

6002697
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 16 March 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
14

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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