| Condition Details / Information Notes |
| The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.
Reason: To conform with the requirements of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. |
| Unless where required or allowed by other conditions attached to this permission/consent, the development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the information (including details on the proposed materials) provided on the application form and the following plans/drawings/documents:
- Location Plan
- Drawing Number 1185-SK4 - Visibility Splays
- Drawing Number 1185-SK5 - Swept Path Assessment
- Drawing Number WR65HA/EM/AL - Block March 2026
- Drawing Number 3684 Revision B - Stable Block Details
- Drawing Number WR65HA/ER/AL - Drainage March 2024
- Conservation Land Management Plan REF# 2026010 dated 13/04/2026
Reason: To define the permission in accordance with policies SWDPR01 and SWDPR03 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review 2026 and the National Planning Policy Framework. |
| Before the commencement of the development hereby permitted a scheme of landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The landscaping scheme shall include:-
(i) a plan(s) showing details of all existing trees and hedges on the application site. The plan should include, for each tree/hedge, the accurate position, canopy spread and species, together with an indication of any proposals for felling/pruning and any proposed changes in ground level, or other works to be carried out, within the canopy spread.
(ii) a plan(s) showing the layout of proposed tree, hedge and shrub planting and grass areas.
(iii) a schedule of proposed planting - indicating species, sizes at time of planting and numbers/densities of plants.
(iv) a written specification outlining cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment.
(v) a schedule of maintenance, including watering and the control of competitive weed growth, for a minimum period of five years from first planting.
All planting and seeding/turfing shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details in the first planting and seeding/turfing seasons following the completion or first occupation/use of the development, whichever is the sooner.
The planting shall be maintained in accordance with the approved schedule of maintenance. Any trees or plants which, within a period of five years from the completion of the planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species.
Reason: To ensure the proposed development does not have an adverse effect on the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies SWDPR28, SWDPR31 and SWDPR34, and to ensure that the proposed development contributes to the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity within the site and for the wider area in accordance with policy SWDPR 29 and SWDPR 30 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review. |
| The approved Biodiversity Gain Plan shall be implemented in accordance with the details and timescale agreed within the Plan and maintained thereafter in accordance with the approved Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan (HMMP).
Reason: To ensure that the proposed development delivers a biodiversity net gain in accordance with Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and in accordance with policies SWDPR 29 and SWDPR 30 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review. |
| The development shall not commence until a Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan (the HMMP), has been prepared in accordance with the approved Biodiversity Gain Plan, the approved landscape scheme and in-line with meadow management recommendations set out in Table 4 of the Preliminary Ecological Appraisal report produced by Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy dated May 2023, submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. It shall include:
(a) a non-technical summary;
(b) the roles and responsibilities of the people or organisation(s) delivering the HMMP;
(c) the planned habitat creation and enhancement works to create or improve habitat to achieve the biodiversity net gain in accordance with the approved Biodiversity Gain Plan;
(d) the management measures to maintain habitat in accordance with the approved Biodiversity Gain Plan for a period of 30 years from the completion of development; and
(e) the monitoring methodology and frequency in respect of the created or enhanced habitat to be submitted to the local planning authority,
Notice in writing shall be given to the Council when the habitat creation and enhancement works as set out in the HMMP have been completed.
The created and enhanced habitat specified in the approved HMMP shall thereafter be managed and maintained in accordance with the approved HMMP.
Monitoring reports shall be submitted to the local planning authority in writing in accordance with the methodology and frequency specified in the approved HMMP.
The plan shall also set out where the results of the monitoring show that conservation aims and objectives of the HMMP are not being met, how contingencies and/or remedial action are identified, agreed and implemented so that the development still delivers the fully functioning biodiversity objectives of the originally approved scheme.
Reason: To ensure the development delivers a biodiversity net gain on site in accordance with Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and in accordance with policies SWDPR 29 and SWDPR 30 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review. |
| The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations for protected species set out Tables 2 and Table 4 of Preliminary Ecological Appraisal report produced by Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy dated May 2023 and submitted with this application. In particular:
- ensuring that nesting birds are not disturbed during clearance works;
- precautionary working methods for badgers;
-sensitive lighting scheme to avoid impacts to bats and other nocturnal wildlife;
-enhancement for bats and birds through the provision of roost and nest boxes bat boxes.
Details of the type and location of the chosen bat boxes and bird boxes shall be submitted to and approved in writing prior to the commencement of the development. The approved box(es) shall be installed prior to the development hereby permitted first being occupied/used.
Reason: to ensure that the proposed development contributes to the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity within the site and for the wider area in accordance with policies SWDPR 29 and SWDPR 30 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review and to ensure compliance with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended). |
| The Development hereby approved shall not be brought into use until the visibility splays, access, parking and turning facilities have been provided as shown on drawings 118-SK4 and Block Plan Proposed V2.
Reason: To ensure conformity with summited details in accordance with policies SWDPR06 and SWDPR28 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review 2026. |
| The Development hereby approved shall not be brought into use until the existing vehicular access shall be permanently closed in accordance with details that shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To ensure the safe and free flow of traffic using the adjoining highway in accordance with policies SWDPR06 and SWDPR28 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review 2026. |
| Manure generated from the development hereby permitted shall only be stored in the area as shown on the approved plans and as detailed within the Planning Statement and the approved Conservation Land Management Plan dated 13/04/2026.
There shall be no burning of stable manure on site.
Reason: To avoid any significant impacts from pollution in accordance with Policy SWDPR35 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review 2026. |
| The use of the land and stable building hereby permitted shall be limited solely to the private keeping and exercising of horses and shall not be used for any commercial or public equestrian events, enterprise or business whatsoever.
Reason: The Local Planning Authority would wish to consider the implications of a commercial or other more intensive use having regard to residential amenity in accordance with Policies SWDPR 05, SWDPR 06, SWDPR 31 and SWDPR 34 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review 2026. |
| From the date of this permission the land and equestrian use shall be managed in complete accordance with the approved Conservation Land Management Plan dated 13/04/2026. In particular:
- No permanent fencing or subdivision of the field;
- Temporary fencing shall be low visibility, non-white, non-permanent and only used for short durations for management or welfare purposes;
- No stationing of jumps and similar equipment, external storage, lighting or other equestrian paraphernalia;
- Number of horses using the site to be limited to the BHS ratio of 1 horse per 1 to 1½ acres unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority in consultation with the National Landscape Team
- Maintenance and monitoring of ecological measures to establish success of the new grazing system.
Reason: To ensure the proposed development does not have an adverse effect on the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies SWDPR28, SWDPR31 and SWDPR34, and to ensure that the proposed development contributes to the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity within the site and for the wider area in accordance with policy SWDPR 29 and SWDPR 30 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review.
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| No development hereby approved shall commence until such time as full details of the new access treatment have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.
The details to be submitted shall include:
- the minimum necessary extent of hedgerow removal
- details of protection of the retained hedge
- details of the material and extent of any sealed surfacing
- details of the gate design and colour
- Full specification of hedgerow planting to form hedgerow reinstatement and reinforcement around the new opening, to include maintenance plan for an establishment period of at least 5 years.
Development shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved details and thereafter maintained and retained.
Reason: To ensure the proposed development does not have an adverse effect on the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies SWDPR28, SWDPR31 and SWDPR34, and to ensure that the proposed development contributes to the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity within the site and for the wider area in accordance with policy SWDPR 29 and SWDPR 30 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review. |
| The effect of paragraph 13 of Schedule 7A to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is that planning permission granted for the development of land in England is deemed to have been granted subject to the condition “(the biodiversity gain condition”) that development may not begin unless:
(a) a Biodiversity Gain Plan has been submitted to the planning authority, and
(b) the planning authority has approved the plan.
Subject to Paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 7A TCPA 1990 The biodiversity gain plan must include:
(a) information about the steps taken or to be taken to minimise the adverse effect of the development on the biodiversity of the onsite habitat and any other habitat;
(b) the pre-development biodiversity value of the onsite habitat;
(c) the post-development biodiversity value of the onsite habitat;
Advice about how to prepare a Biodiversity Gain Plan and a template can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/submit-a-biodiversity-gain-plan |
| Positive and Proactive Statement. In dealing with this application, the Council has worked with the applicant in the following ways:- providing pre-application advice;
- seeking further information following receipt of the application;
- seeking amendments to the proposed development following receipt of the application;
- considering the imposition of conditions
In such ways the Council has demonstrated a positive and proactive manner in seeking solutions to problems arising in relation to the planning application. |
