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Bethany Lodge 222 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4PA

26/00476/CLPUCertificate of Lawfulness of proposed useApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 July 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness to confirm that the proposed use as a residential care home for 5 young people (use class C2) would not be a change of use from the existing use as a care home for 8 adults.

Received
29 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lower Wick and Pitmaston
  1. Received29 May
  2. Validated29 May
  3. Consult.19 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Jul

Decided in 35 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Bethany Lodge 222 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4PA. Worcester has handled 98 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 7 days quicker than Worcester's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Lower Wick and Pitmaston. We hold 744 applications in total for the WR2 postcode area.

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

Postcode
WR2 4PA
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 May 2026
Consultation expiry
19 June 2026
Consultation start
29 May 2026
Consultation end
19 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1-4 South Park Business Court Hobson Street Macclesfield SK11 8BS

Additional information

Documents
8

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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