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First And Second Floor Offices 4-5 College Street Worcester WR1 2LU

26/00660/GPDJGPDJ - Office to residentialApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 20 August 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior approval application for a proposed change of use of existing offices (use class E) first and second floor into 5no. residential apartments(use class C3)

Received
17 July 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cathedral Ward
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.19 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 34 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at First And Second Floor Offices 4-5 College Street Worcester WR1 2LU. Worcester has handled 1,936 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 8 days quicker 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 101 applications across Cathedral Ward. We hold 211 applications in total for the WR1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WR1 2LU
Application type
GPDJ - Office to residential
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2026
Consultation expiry
19 August 2026
Consultation start
21 July 2026
Consultation end
19 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Site Chosen View Road Cheltenham GL51 9LT

Planning decision

Case officer
Ros Vaux Harvey

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
19 August 2026
Site notice start
22 July 2026

Additional information

Documents
9

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: Historic City
  • 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.

Source: Worcester

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