Tack Farm, Broadwas, Worcester, WR6 5NE

Planning appeal 3354156 at Tack Farm, Broadwas, Worcester, WR6 5NE (Malvern Hills District Council) was allowed on 24 June 2025 by Inspector Stephens K, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the site would be suitable for housing development having regard to its location, land use and amount of development.

application for permission in principle for the proposed erection of up to 5 no. dwellings (including 3 self-build plots)

Authority: Malvern Hills District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Stephens K
Postcode: WR6 5NE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the site would be suitable for housing development having regard to its location, land use and amount of development
The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
Whether the proposal would preserve the setting of nearby listed buildings

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply, combined with the significant contribution the proposal would make to meeting housing need and self-build custom housing requirements, outweighed the conflict with the development plan regarding location and sustainability.

The conflict with the development plan regarding location and sustainability was outweighed by the significant benefits of housing delivery to meet unmet need, the provision of 3 self-build custom housing plots to meet a legal obligation, the redevelopment of a brownfield site, and the absence of harm to heritage assets or character and appearance.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: SWDP4SWDP2SWDP21SWDP24SWDP6
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

15 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Malvern Hills

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Dismissed22 October 20266002119
Land at (Os 7897 6938), Dunley, DY13 0TX
Dismissed28 September 20266006722
Land at (Os 8001, 4009), Drake Street, Welland, WR13 6NB
Dismissed23 June 20266002718
Land At (Os 7129 6118) Pound Lane, Clifton Upon Teme, WR6 6DQ
Dismissed5 June 20266003962
Cygnet Lodge, Worcester Road, Hanley Swan, WR8 0EA
Dismissed28 May 20266003843
The Grange, Hanley Swan, Worcester, WR8 0DN

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.