74 Lenchwick Lane Lenchwick Evesham WR11 4TG

W/26/00662/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 18 May 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Permission in Principle for 1 no. dwelling

Received: 24 March 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wychavon District Council
Ward: Harvington & Norton Ward

ReceivedReceived24 Mar
ValidatedValidated14 Apr
Consult.Consultation5 May
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided18 May

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 74 Lenchwick Lane Lenchwick Evesham WR11 4TG. 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 56 applications across Harvington & Norton Ward. We hold 1,694 applications in total for the WR11 postcode area.

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

The application site lies outside the development boundary of Norton and Lenchwick as defined under adopted South Worcestershire Development Plan Review Policy SWDPR 03. The site is therefore defined as being ‘open countryside’ where development is strictly controlled subject to other policies in the Plan. The principle for housing development comprising of an open market dwelling on this site is not established by any of the other housing policies listed within the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review (March 2026). Accordingly, the location and scale of development fails to accord with the provisions of Policy SWDPR 03 part D of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review 2026 and conflicts with the development strategy underpinning the adopted Local Plan, which seeks to focus most development on the urban areas where both housing needs and accessibility to lower-cost public services are greatest. In addition, Norton and Lenchwick is identified as a Category 4 village within the Settlement Hierarchy and whilst the site would benefit from pedestrian access to the limited range of services and facilities within the village and limited bus service, future occupiers would be reliant to a significant extent on private vehicles to access wider services, facilities and education and employment opportunities contrary to Policies SWDPR 01 and SWDPR 06. Therefore, the proposal would fail to represent development of an appropriate scale and type having regard to its location, Settlement Hierarchy classification and infrastructure capacity, contrary to Policy SWDPR 03 Parts D and E of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review (March 2026) and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework. It is concluded that the location of the site is not suitable for residential development and that the proposal, considered holistically, fails to represent sustainable development.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode: WR11 4TG
Application type: Permission in Principle
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Norton and Lenchwick

Planning application dates

Date validated: 14 April 2026
Consultation expiry: 5 May 2026
Consultation start: 14 April 2026
Consultation end: 5 May 2026

Applicant and agent

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

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.

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.

Source: Wychavon

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