Annexes Related Planning Applications over the last 10 Calendar Years (2015-2025 inclusive)
Case reference EIR2026/01921
Received 30 July 2026
Published 20 August 2026
Request
Please treat this as a request for recorded information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
I am requesting information relating to annexe accommodation over the last ten calendar years (2015 - 2025 inclusive):
1. Application volumes:
The number of planning applications received that relates to:
* Annexes
* Ancillary accommodation
* Incidental accommodation
* Dependent relative units
* (or any other equivalent terminology used by your authority)
Please provide totals per year.
2. Decision outcomes
For the same applications, please provide the number:
* Approved
* Refused
* Withdrawn
Broken down by year
3. Appeals
For the same period, please provide:
* How many were appealed
* Appeal outcomes (allowed / dismissed)
* Any recorded inspector reasoning if held in a summarised format)
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If providing the full ten years dataset would exceed the appropriate limit, require disproportionate manual searching, or is otherwise not reasonably possible under EIR, please instead provide the same information the most recent five years only.
Please provide the information in any recorded format you hold (spreadsheet, table, report).
If any part of this request requires classification, please let me know and I will refine it.
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Response
Please treat this as a request for recorded information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
I am requesting information relating to annexe accommodation over the last ten calendar years (2015 - 2025 inclusive):
1. Application volumes:
The number of planning applications received that relates to:
* Annexes
* Ancillary accommodation
* Incidental accommodation
* Dependent relative units
* (or any other equivalent terminology used by your authority)
Please provide totals per year.
2. Decision outcomes
For the same applications, please provide the number:
* Approved
* Refused
* Withdrawn
Broken down by year
3. Appeals
For the same period, please provide:
* How many were appealed
* Appeal outcomes (allowed / dismissed)
* Any recorded inspector reasoning if held in a summarised format)
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If providing the full ten years dataset would exceed the appropriate limit, require disproportionate manual searching, or is otherwise not reasonably possible under EIR, please instead provide the same information the most recent five years only.
Please provide the information in any recorded format you hold (spreadsheet, table, report).
If any part of this request requires classification, please let me know and I will refine it.
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Answer: This information is publicly available and published on our council website and can be viewed via the following link:
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-search
Please enter key words in the key word search bar and enter the date parameters you require to find relevant planning applications. Appeals information will be published on the planning application webpages.
As such we consider this information to be excepted under Regulation 6 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 because this is available to you via other means.
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