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Venture Business Park, Unit 2 Weir Lane Worcester WR2 4AY

24/01011/FULFull planning permissionWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 21 March 2025

Council decision: Withdrawn/ClosedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of vacant unit to to a fishing tackle and equipment merchant (Sui Generis).

Received
20 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lower Wick and Pitmaston
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated20 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Mar

Decided in 91 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Venture Business Park, Unit 2 Weir Lane Worcester WR2 4AY. Worcester has handled 958 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 91 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Lower Wick and Pitmaston. We hold 745 applications in total for the WR2 postcode area.

92% of full applications at Worcester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WR2 4AY
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 December 2024
Consultation expiry
29 January 2025
Consultation start
8 January 2025
Consultation end
29 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29 Old Field Road Bocam Park Pencoed Bridgend CF35 5LJ

Publicity

Site notice start
14 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
34

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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: Worcester

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