Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Malvern Hills District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Malvern Hills website
31,527 approved · 5,515 refused · 2,896 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 1977 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land At (Os 8202 5595 West Of Worcester) Martley Road Lower Broadheath
Received 10 Oct 2025Agricultural Building at Grounds Farm Hancocks Lane Malvern WR14 4JP
Received 2 Feb 20177 Merick Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1DD
Received 21 Feb 2008Organ Hall , Worcester Road, Malvern, Worcestershire,
Received 8 May 2000Land At (Os 8166 5113), Sparrowhall Lane, Powick, Worcester
Received 18 Feb 2013Land At OP 273 Hazelhurst Farm , Little Witley, Worcester,
Received 3 Aug 200054 Somers Road Malvern WR14 1JB
Received 7 Oct 2019The Baptist Church , 49 Old Street, Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcester, WR8 0HN
Received 3 Mar 2004Woodhill , Garrett Bank, Welland, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6NF
Received 7 Feb 200984 Guarlford Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3QT
Received 29 Oct 2004Gadfield Elm Chapel Staunton
Received 14 Jan 1999Crown Works , Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2QP
Received 9 Apr 2001Clays Farm , Clows Top, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY14 9NN
Received 1 Apr 2005Priory Cottage , Bank Street, Stoke Bliss, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8RY
Received 14 Aug 2001White House , Pensax Common, Stockton, Worcester, WR6 6XL
Received 10 Aug 1998Eldon , Hook Bank, Hanley Castle, Worcester, WR8 0AY
Received 17 Apr 200820-24 Belle Vue Terrace Malvern WR14 4PZ
Received 26 Jan 2023Vault House , Hollybush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1ET
Received 7 Mar 2005Plum Cottage 2 Gilvers Lane Hanley Castle Worcester WR8 0AT
Received 6 Jun 2023Land At (Os 75000 6156) Hillside Martley
Received 29 Nov 2024Land Off Jennett Tree Lane Deblins Green Callow End Worcester WR2 4UE
Received 25 Apr 2001Former Bowketts Horns Trading Estate Site Bromyard Road Tenbury Wells WR15 8BZ
Received 22 Dec 1997Stonehall Farm Stonehall Common Kempsey Worcester WR5 3QG
Received 5 Sept 2016Tanners Bungalow Beach Hay Bayton DY14 9NF
Received 17 Aug 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Malvern Hills District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
Check collection coverage