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Worcester City Museum And Library Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DT

26/00440/LBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 27 July 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed building consent for internal alterations to galleries on first floor including wall panelling, replacement air conditioning units in galleries 5, 6 and 7, new store cupboard, new frameless glass doors to gallery 6, new air conditioning units to main Art Gallery and Watercolour Gallery

Received
18 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Arboretum Ward
  1. Received18 May
  2. Validated18 May
  3. Consult.11 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jul

Decided in 70 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Worcester City Museum And Library Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DT. Worcester has handled 79 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 4 weeks longer than Worcester's typical decision time. The site is in the Foregate Street and The Tything conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Arboretum Ward. We hold 206 applications in total for the WR1 postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WR1 1DT
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 May 2026
Consultation expiry
11 June 2026
Consultation start
19 May 2026
Consultation end
11 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Barbourne Road Worcester WR1 1RS

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
11 June 2026

Additional information

Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Foregate Street and The Tything
  • Listed building: Grade II*: City Museum and Library With GatesOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 23-24 Foregate StreetRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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.

Source: Worcester

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