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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
34,458 approved · 6,040 refused · 3,068 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 1977 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At (Os 7963 4859), Newland, Worcestershire
Received 27 Jan 201426 Alexandra Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1HG
Received 8 Aug 20066 Christ Church Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3BE
Received 21 Dec 201535A Lower Ferry Lane, Callow End, Worcester, WR2 4UN,
Received 3 Sept 2008Nineveh House Sutton Tenbury Wells WR15 8RN
Received 10 Jan 202511 West Malvern Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4ND
Received 23 Dec 201595 Graham Road Malvern WR14 2JW
Received 14 Jul 20255 Holywell Road Malvern WR14 4LE
Received 30 Dec 2024Kingshurst, Kempsey, Worcester, WR5 3NA
Received 30 Jul 2003Royal Oak Inn , 355 Worcester Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1AN
Received 16 Oct 2000Land At (Os 7983 6628) New Inn Lane Shrawley
Received 2 Nov 202327 Old Road South,Kempsey,Worcestershire,WR5 3NJ
Received 15 Apr 201311 Alexandra Lane, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1JF
Received 28 Jul 2003St Anns Well Happy Valley Malvern WR14 4RF
Received 10 Jun 200512 Randell Road Malvern WR14 1EN
Received 30 Jul 2018Garth Cottage, 7 Post Office Lane, Kempsey, Worcestershire WR5 3NS
Received 19 Sept 2011The Old Smithy , Martley, Worcester, WR6 6QA
Received 27 Jul 2006Threshers Barn Suckley Worcester WR6 5DW
Received 14 Sept 2020Archery Cottage 109 Wells Road Malvern WR14 4PD
Received 10 Nov 20254 Clarence Road,Malvern,Worcestershire,WR14 3DU
Received 11 Jan 2012White House , Stocks Lane, Newland, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 5AZ
Received 17 Jul 1998Land at Stanford Court Stanford Bridge Worcester WR6 6SG
Received 13 Dec 2013Dees Cottage, Castlemorton, Worcestershire, WR13 6BN
Received 17 Jul 2013The Red Lion Inn , Village, Powick, Worcester,
Received 11 Aug 1998Records 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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