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Land At OS 9240 4107 Tewkesbury Road Eckington

W/26/00410/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 April 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

Proposal

Permission in Principle application for up to 9 houses

Received
20 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Eckington Ward
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated12 Mar
  3. Consult.30 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At OS 9240 4107 Tewkesbury Road Eckington. Wychavon has handled 442 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Eckington 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 application site lies outside of any defined development boundary and is therefore located within the open countryside, where development is strictly controlled under Policy SWDPR03 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review. The proposal for the erection of nine dwellings does not fall within any of the identified exceptions to this policy. As such, the principle of new residential development in this location is not supported and is contrary to the provisions of the development plan. The Council is able to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing land, including the appropriate buffer. Accordingly, the relevant policies for the supply of housing are considered to be up-to-date, and the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out in paragraph 11(d) of the National Planning Policy Framework, is not engaged. Full weight can therefore be afforded to policies which seek to restrict development in the open countryside.
  2. The proposed development would result in a incongruous form of development that encroaches into the open countryside, causing significant harm to the rural character and openness of the surrounding area. The introduction of new dwellings in this countryside location would represent an unwarranted and visually intrusive addition into an otherwise undeveloped rural landscape. This erosion of rural character and loss of openness is considered unacceptable and contrary to the established pattern of development. The development conflicts with Policies SWDPR 03, 28 and 34 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review, Policy H5 of the Eckington Neighbourhood Plan and 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
Eckington

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 March 2026
Consultation expiry
30 March 2026
Consultation start
16 March 2026
Consultation end
30 March 2026

Applicant and agent

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

Additional information

Documents
40

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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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