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Highfield, Day Nursery At Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2HW

26/00634/CANTree works within a conservation areaWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 30 September 2026

Council decision: Withdrawn/Closed

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

Proposal

Proposed Works: To re-pollard all ten Lime trees and the two Sycamore trees back to their established and historic pollard points.

Received
16 July 2026
Ward
Battenhall Ward
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated28 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Sep

Decided in 2 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a planning application at Highfield, Day Nursery At Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2HW. Worcester has handled 27 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 2 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Battenhall Villas conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Battenhall Ward. We hold 515 applications in total for the WR5 postcode area.

100% of tree works within a conservation area 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 2HW
Application type
Tree works within a conservation area
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
UNIT 7 THISTLE GROVE FARM BELBOURGTON STOUR west midlands Uk DY9 9UU

Planning decision

Case officer
Alvan Kingston

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: Battenhall Villas
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    28 Oct

    Proposed garden composting toilet

    PendingFull planning permission26/00868/FUL

Source: Worcester

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