Rectory Farm Dodderhill Common Hanbury Bromsgrove B60 4AT

W/26/00781/FULFull planning permissionRefused

Full

Refused on 28 May 2026

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

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

Proposal

Replacement of an Agricultural Building with a Single Dwellinghouse and Replacement of Existing Outbuilding with Garage. Application for variation of Condition 2 following a grant of planning permission 20/00448/FUL - (Variation of conditions 2 & 8 of Ref. 21/00556/FUL)

Received: 7 April 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wychavon District Council
Ward: Inkberrow Ward, Dodderhill Ward

ReceivedReceived7 Apr
ValidatedValidated16 Apr
Consult.Consultation15 May
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided28 May

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Rectory Farm Dodderhill Common Hanbury Bromsgrove B60 4AT. Wychavon has handled 3,372 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Wychavon's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Inkberrow Ward, Dodderhill Ward. We hold 1,644 applications in total for the B60 postcode area.

89% of full 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

Overall, the replacement dwelling would be disproportionately larger and increase the existing gross internal floorspace compared with the extant planning permissions W/21/00556/FUL and W/20/00448/FUL by significantly by more than 30%. Therefore, the replacement dwelling would be contrary to policy SWDPR 23 A iii and subsequently SWDPR 03 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review along with the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.
The proposed development by virtue of its proposed size, height and scale is materially larger than the existing dwelling. It therefore does not meet the requirements for replacement dwellings under paragraph 154(d) of the National Planning Policy Framework, amounting to an 'inappropriate' form of development in the Green Belt. The increased massing overall would result in harm to the openness of the Green Belt, contrary to one of the purposes of including land within the Green Belt. Inappropriate development is, by definition, harmful. The harm has not been clearly outweighed by other considerations so Very Special Circumstances do not exist. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy SWDPR 04 and SWDPR 23 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.
The design of the proposal with its complicated roof form and design features would fail to reflect the simple form and design of the agricultural building which it would replace and fails to represent a high design quality, particularly when viewing the rear and both side elevations. The development would therefore be contrary to Policies SWDPR 05 and SWDPR 28 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode: B60 4AT
Application type: Full planning permission
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hanbury , Dodderhill

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 April 2026
Consultation expiry: 15 May 2026
Consultation start: 17 April 2026
Consultation end: 15 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Barcaldine Barrack Lane Lilleshall Newport Shropshire TF10 9ER

Additional information

Documents: 13

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.

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.

Associated applications

2026
7 Apr
Replacement of an Agricultural Building with a Single Dwellinghouse and Replacement of Existing Outbuilding…
This applicationRefusedVariation of conditions (s73)W/26/00781/FUL
2021
19 Jan
Application for a non-material amendment following grant of planning permission 20/00448/FUL
RefusedNon-material amendmentAmendment21/00126/NMA
2020
2 Mar
Replacement of an Agricultural Building with a Single Dwellinghouse and Replacement of Existing Outbuilding…
ApprovedFull planning permissionPart of20/00448/FUL

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8 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Wychavon

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