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Old Post Office Hollybush Ledbury HR8 1ET

M/25/01861/FULFull planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 28 January 2026

Council decision: RefusalPlanning committee2 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Construction of 1 self-build/custom build single storey dwelling, including parking, ramped access and landscaping

Received
19 November 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Longdon Ward
  1. Received19 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.28 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Old Post Office Hollybush Ledbury HR8 1ET. Malvern Hills has handled 1,246 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 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 38 applications across Longdon Ward. We hold 2,624 applications in total for the HR8 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposal would result in the unjustified built development in the open countryside. The development would cause harm to, and erode, the open and rural character of the surrounding landscape. The development would therefore fail to preserve or enhance the landscape, setting, and character of the National Landscape and would not positively contribute to the areas rural nature, contrary to Policies SWDP1, SWDP2, SWDP23, and SWDP25 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (2016), and the National Planning Policy Framework
  2. 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 poor standard of the local walking and cycling environment, and the location of the application site in relation to bus stops. Therefore, the proposed development would occupy an unsustainable location, contrary to Policies SWDP 2 and SWDP 4 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (2016) and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
HR8 1ET
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Berrow CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Consultation expiry
28 December 2025
Consultation start
25 November 2025
Consultation end
28 December 2025
Committee meeting
21 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
30 Sansome Walk Worcester WR1 1LX

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
28 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
63

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Malvern Hills
  • 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 (20)

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, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2020
    31 Jan

    Single storey rear extension

    ApprovedHouseholder20/00141/HP

Source: Malvern Hills

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