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Pear Tree Inn Smite Lane Hindlip Worcester WR3 8SY

W/26/00150/CUChange of useApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 April 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)14 conditions

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

Proposal

Full planning application for the change of use of public house and hotel to SEND school at Pear Tree Inn & Country Hotel and new boundary treatments

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Claines & Salwarpe Ward
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated18 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Pear Tree Inn Smite Lane Hindlip Worcester WR3 8SY. Wychavon has handled 679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Wychavon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across North Claines & Salwarpe Ward. We hold 939 applications in total for the WR3 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
WR3 8SY
Application type
Change of use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hindlip , Salwarpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 February 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
19 February 2026
Consultation end
19 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
STEAMhouse Belmont Row Birmingham B4 7RQ

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
19 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Wychavon
  • 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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