5 Lower Howsell Road Malvern WR14 1ED
Approved on 13 May 2026
Council decision: CertifiedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness proposed for the construction of a hip-to-gable roof extension, rear dormer window and insertion of skylights to facilitate a loft conversion.
- Received
- 20 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Link Ward
- ReceivedReceived20 Mar
- ValidatedValidated23 Mar
- Consult.Consultation14 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 May
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 5 Lower Howsell Road Malvern WR14 1ED. Malvern Hills has handled 213 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Link Ward. We hold 610 applications in total for the WR14 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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Application details
- Postcode
- WR14 1ED
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Malvern CP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 14 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 24 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 14 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Architect profile
- ARKIPLAN ARCHITECTURAL LIMITED
- Agent address
- House 13 Freeland Park Lytchett Wareham Road BH16 6FA
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Benjamin Sparrey
Additional information
- Documents
- 12
Site constraints
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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