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First To Third Floors 7 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DB

26/00004/GPDGGPDG - commercial, business and service (Use class E) , betting office, pay day loan, to mixed useApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 9 April 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for a change of use from commercial (use class E) to 4 flats (use class C3) on first, second and third floor.

Received
5 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cathedral Ward
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.16 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 94 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at First To Third Floors 7 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DB. Worcester has handled 1,927 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 7 weeks longer than Worcester's typical decision time. The site is in the Historic City conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Cathedral Ward. We hold 206 applications in total for the WR1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WR1 1DB
Application type
GPDG - commercial, business and service (Use class E) , betting office, pay day loan, to mixed use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2026
Consultation expiry
16 February 2026
Consultation start
26 January 2026
Consultation end
16 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Piccadilly House, 59 Piccadilly Piccadilly Hanley STOKE-ON-TRENT ST1 1HR

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
4 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Historic City
  • Listed building: Grade II: Friends' Meeting HouseOn or next to this site · +6 more
  • Brownfield land register: International House, 13 Pierpoint Street, Worcester, WR1 1YDRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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