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18 Chesterton Gardens Worcester WR5 1SR

26/00324/CLECertificate of Lawfulness ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 27 July 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development certificate for the existing use of property as a five bedroom house of multiple occupation (use class C4).

Received
13 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Leopard Hill Ward
  1. Received13 Apr
  2. Validated13 Apr
  3. Consult.7 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jul

Decided in 105 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 18 Chesterton Gardens Worcester WR5 1SR. Worcester has handled 84 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 9 weeks longer 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 Leopard Hill Ward. We hold 513 applications in total for the WR5 postcode area.

95% of amendment 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
WR5 1SR
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 April 2026
Consultation expiry
7 May 2026
Consultation start
15 April 2026
Consultation end
7 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
30 Centurion Drive Kempsey Worcester WR5 3NR

Additional information

Documents
1

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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