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Land At (Os 9438 5460) Maidenway Lane Upton Snodsbury

W/26/00248/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 30 April 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)3 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Permission in Principle for residential development of up to 5 dwellings

Received
2 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Upton Snodsbury Ward
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.11 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At (Os 9438 5460) Maidenway Lane Upton Snodsbury. Wychavon has handled 442 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 4 weeks longer than Wychavon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Upton Snodsbury Ward.

60% of outline applications at Wychavon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development would introduce incongruous built form into this rural location, outside of the Development Boundary, divorced from the character of the built form of the village, by virtue of the A422 principle road running between the site and the village, with adverse impacts on the openness and character of the landscape by reason of the location and land use. These identified harms would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of the proposal. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy SWDPR 03 (Development Strategy and Settlement Hierarchy) together with Policies SWDPR 28 (Design) and SWDPR 34 (Landscape Character) of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review (March 2026) together with the Worcestershire County Council Landscape Character Assessment 2018 and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.
  2. The proposal would result in an adverse visual intrusion into the landscape character type, and openness of the countryside, when viewed from the public right of way (PRoW) Path No US-557 C and vehicular approach along A422 towards Upton Snodsbury from the east, contrary to Policies SWDPR 28 (Design) and SWDPR 34 (Landscape Character) of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review (March 2026) together with the Worcestershire County Council Landscape Character Assessment 2018, and with regards to the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.
  3. The proposed development would adversely impact the rural and historic dispersed setting of the landscape, would not be reflective of the character of the spatial pattern of the village, encroach into the countryside, and introduce domestication within the rural landscape that would be uncharacteristic to the identified landscape character ‘Village Claylands Landscape Type’. These identified harms would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of the proposal. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policies SWDPR 28 (Design) and SWDPR 34 (Landscape Character) of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review (March 2026), contrary to the Worcestershire County Council Landscape Character Assessment 2018 together with the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upton Snodsbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2026
Consultation expiry
11 March 2026
Consultation start
20 February 2026
Consultation end
11 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3rd Floor 45 Albermarle Street Mayfair London W1S 4JL

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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