Land off Blackpole Road Worcester

25/00933/SCRScreening OpinionApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 November 2025

Council decision: EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion pursuant to Regulation 6 of the Town & Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) – Proposed development of land for a mix of employment uses (Use class E(g), B2, B8) on land off Blackpole Road, Worcester

Received: 21 October 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Worcester City Council
Ward: Warndon and Elbury Park

ReceivedReceived21 Oct
ValidatedValidated21 Oct
Consult.Consultation3 Nov
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided3 Nov

Decided in 13 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land off Blackpole Road Worcester. Worcester has handled 98 applications of this type. This one was decided in 13 days, 4 weeks quicker than Worcester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Warndon and Elbury Park.

89% of outline 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

Application type: Screening Opinion
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 October 2025
Consultation expiry: 3 November 2025
Consultation start: 21 October 2025
Consultation end: 3 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Cornwall Buildings 45 Newhall Street Birmingham B3 3QR

Additional information

Documents: 10

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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.

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© 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.

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