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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
52,792 approved · 9,964 refused · 4,067 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 May 1974 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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 8257 3551), Longdon Marsh, Longdon, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, ,
Received 13 Feb 2006Green Bank House, Back Lane, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2JL
Received 14 Nov 20143 Lime Grove, Welland, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6LY
Received 9 Oct 2006Green Farm , Monkwood Green, Hallow, Worcester, WR2 6NX
Received 10 Jun 1999Turnstone House , Church Lane, Little Witley, Worcester, WR6 6LP
Received 16 Aug 1985Morgan Court Worcester Road Malvern
Received 4 Oct 19857 West Malvern Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4ND
Received 20 Feb 2003111 Church Street, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2AA
Received 3 Aug 1988Home Farm , Rye Street, Birtsmorton, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6AS
Received 20 Oct 1987The Cedars, 95 Graham Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2JW
Received 19 Dec 2006Rose Cottage , Bromyard Road, Cotheridge, Worcester, WR6 5LP
Received 13 Jul 1994Fir Tree Cottage , Shrawley, Worcester, WR6 6TP
Received 23 Jan 2006Rear Of General Stores , Worcester Road, Great Witley, Worcester,
Received 16 Jan 1997Weatherlane Farm , Weather Lane, Astley Burf, Stourport-on-severn, Worcestershire, DY13 0SF
Received 25 Apr 1983Reservoir , Cowleigh Park, Cradley, Malvern, Worcestershire,
Received 10 Dec 1984Building At (OS 8531 3994) , Rectory Road, Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcester,
Received 25 May 1978Sundale, Broadgreen, Broadwas, Worcester, WR6 5NW
Received 31 Jan 2000New House Farm , Mamble, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY14 9JP
Received 4 May 2000Biddles Farm , Castlemorton, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6BS
Received 22 Jul 198326 Avenue Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3BG
Received 15 Mar 2007Basement Flat , 11 Manby Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3BD
Received 12 Nov 2003The Nags Head , 21 Bank Street, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2JG
Received 24 Oct 19805 Old Street, Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcester, WR8 0HN
Received 21 May 1982Former British Telecom Site Hall Green Malvern
Received 23 Sept 1993Records 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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