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Flat Over Swimming Pool Rookery Farm Ab Lench Road Abbots Lench

W/24/00143/CLECertificate of Lawfulness ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 May 2024

Council decision: CertifiedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the existing use of building as independent dwelling

Received
24 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Inkberrow Ward
  1. Received24 Jan
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.14 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 May

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Flat Over Swimming Pool Rookery Farm Ab Lench Road Abbots Lench. Wychavon has handled 679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 114 days, 8 weeks longer than Wychavon's typical decision time. The site is in the Church Lench conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 148 applications across Inkberrow Ward. We hold 1,694 applications in total for the WR11 postcode area.

87% of amendment applications at Wychavon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WR11 4UF
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Lenches

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2024
Consultation expiry
14 March 2024
Consultation start
22 February 2024
Consultation end
14 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Farm Office Millridge Farm Parsons Lane Hartlebury DY11 7YQ

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.

  • Conservation area: Church Lench
  • 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: Wychavon

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