Credenhill Parish 'Call for Sites' (2025–2045 Local Plan)
Case reference EIR2026/01219
Received 22 May 2026
Published 1 June 2026
Last amended 1 June 2026
Request
Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 please provide the following regarding land submissions in the Credenhill Parish:
1. Identity: The names of applicants/agents for all land submitted to the West of Credenhill village.
2. Mapping: Reference numbers and boundary maps for these submissions.
3. Linked Entities: Confirmation of any submissions
Public Interest: Disclosure is essential to facilitate a comparative heritage assessment between current proposals and plan-led alternatives, as per the Parish Council’s stated Place Shaping policy.
A pre-application consultation is currently underway for a speculative 250-homedevelopment north of Granary Cottages. (See attachment for context). The developer has claimed a 'presumption for development' on heritage-sensitive land while no comparative information on alternative sites was presented. Disclosure is necessary to allow the community and the Parish Council to perform a comparative assessment of heritage impact and to ensure transparency in the planning process
Response
Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 please provide the following regarding land submissions in the Credenhill Parish:
1. Identity: The names of applicants/agents for all land submitted to the West of Credenhill village.
2. Mapping: Reference numbers and boundary maps for these submissions.
3. Linked Entities: Confirmation of any submissions made by James Spreckley Ltd, Quercus PRF LLP (OC346390), H. & R. Ecroyd Ltd., or family Trusts.
Public Interest: Disclosure is essential to facilitate a comparative heritage assessment between current proposals and plan-led alternatives, as per the Parish Council’s stated
Place Shaping policy. A pre-application consultation is currently underway for a speculative 250-homedevelopment north of Granary Cottages. (See attachment for context). The developer has claimed a 'presumption for development' on heritage-sensitive land while no comparative information on alternative sites was presented. Disclosure is necessary to allow the community and the Parish Council to perform a comparative assessment of heritage impact and to ensure transparency in the planning process
A: The Call for Sites study is currently ongoing and therefore we have determined that the requested information is excepted under Regulation 12 (4) (d) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 - material in the course of completion, unfinished documents and incomplete data.
The requested information is a technical, non-policy document created by local councils to identify sites that are potentially suitable, available, and achievable for housing or employment development. Some sites have been resubmitted from previous years and we will need to refresh assessments on them. The assessment is an important source of evidence to inform plan-making. However, the study is incomplete, and internal assessments are required from service areas within the Council before a view can be formed and eventually published.
This exception is subject to a public interest test and accordingly I have weighed the reasons for and against disclosure in the public interest as follows:
The public interest in disclosure:
Openness and transparency relating to the Call for Sites study.
The public interest in not disclosing the information:
The Call for Sites study is, at the time of writing, ongoing, and as such the decision making process is not complete. Material still in the course of completion includes information created as part of the process of formulating and developing policy, when that process is not complete.
Whilst this is ongoing, Herefordshire Council should be afforded safe space away from public scrutiny to review information and to collate any relevant information for the current Call for Sites study, and providing incomplete data at this time would hamper that decision making process.
Once the Call for Sites study is complete a Candidate Sites Register that identifies which locations are being considered as options for growth or not, will be made publically available on the council's website in approximately 6-12 months time.
Taking the above into consideration we consider the balance in favour of not disclosing the information at this stage outweighs the reasons for disclosure.
Please be encouraged to resubmit your request in 12 months and we will direct you to where it is publically available.
Documents
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