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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
31,999 approved · 5,599 refused · 2,929 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 1977 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Hawthorn Dene , Worcester Road, Newland, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 5AY
Received 18 Oct 2004Land At (Os 8349 4918) Old Hills Callow End
Received 16 Sept 2021Lower Lightwood Farm Lightwood Lane Cotheridge Worcester WR6 5LT
Received 12 Aug 2024Birchwood Imperial Road Malvern
Received 14 Sept 2023Oldhouse Farm,Highfields,Knightwick,Worcestershire,
Received 21 Jul 2011Hopview, Newnham Court, Newnham Bridge, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8JF,
Received 18 Oct 2007Kynance Station Road Bransford Worcester WR6 5JH
Received 16 Dec 202220 Watkins Way, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3NS
Received 15 Jan 2014197 West Malvern Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4BB
Received 25 Mar 2002The Chandlery , Martley, Worcester, WR6 6QA
Received 7 May 2002Temeside Cottage Temeside Way Powick, Worcester WR2 4QP
Received 13 Jun 2017Lindridge School , Lindridge, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8JQ
Received 26 Oct 2009The Annexe The Great Barn Dunstall Earls Croome Worcester WR8 9DF
Received 25 Sept 2024Flat 7 & Flat 9 Waterside House Waterside Upton Upon Severn Worcester WR8 0JD
Received 7 Nov 2007The Malvern Splash Priory Road Malvern WR14 3DS
Received 18 Sept 2002Stanbrook Abbey Upton Road Callow End Worcester WR2 4TD
Received 4 Jul 2025Gate Cottage , Stanford Bridge, Worcester, WR6 6RU
Received 23 Jun 200346 Lower Wyche Road Malvern WR14 4ET
Received 19 Sept 20172 Somers Park Avenue,Malvern,Worcestershire,WR14 1SD
Received 13 Oct 2011Five Oaks , Kings Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4HL
Received 11 May 2004Hillend Court , Castlemorton, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6BL
Received 14 Sept 2005Hop Kiln Barns Hill Road Lulsley Knightwick
Received 12 May 2003Centre Section Severn End Hanley Castle Worcester WR8 0BW
Received 7 May 202112 Chestnut Close,Welland,Worcestershire,WR13 6SD
Received 6 Jun 2012Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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.
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