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Air conditioning across Worcestershire

A county guide for homeowners, from the city of Worcester to the Malvern Hills, the Vale of Evesham and the Wyre Forest. Send an enquiry and it is passed to an independent installer for your postcode.

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What would you like to cool?

  • Free survey

    Enquiring through this site is free and does not commit you to anything. Ask the installer whether their survey is free before they visit. We do not carry out surveys.

  • F-Gas certified installers

    Installation must be carried out by an appropriately F-Gas-certified business. It is reasonable to ask the installer for their certificate before work starts.

  • Warranty

    Manufacturer warranties and any cover for the installation are set by the equipment maker and the installer. Check both on the written quotation before you agree to the work.

  • How it works

    You tell us which rooms you want to cool. We pass the enquiry to an independent installer serving your area, and you decide whether to go ahead.

    See how an enquiry works

Worcestershire is a small county with several different kinds of home. A terraced house in Worcester, a villa in Great Malvern, a new-town house in Redditch and a cottage off the gas grid near Tenbury do not share an installation. The outdoor unit, the pipe run, flooding and planning all change with the address. This page is the map of those differences. Each town has its own page, and air conditioning in Worcester is covered in detail on the city page, including WR1 to WR5.

Worcester and the towns around it

The city sits on the Severn in the middle of the county. North of it are Droitwich Spa and the Bromsgrove fringe. West and south-west are the Malvern Hills, Upton-upon-Severn and the Teme valley towards Tenbury Wells. East is the Vale of Evesham, Pershore and, at the Cotswold edge, Broadway. North-west are Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley. Redditch, on the Warwickshire side, is the new town. An enquiry from any of those places is passed to an installer who works that area. The town pages are there so you can read the local constraints before anyone visits.

Six planning authorities, not one

Planning in Worcestershire is split across six councils. A postcode is a poor guide to which one applies. WR2 reaches Powick and Hallow, which are Malvern Hills. WR3 reaches Fernhill Heath, which is Wychavon. The permitted development rules for a reversible air-to-air system are national, but conservation areas, listed buildings and Article 4 directions are local. Since May 2025 a system that heats as well as cools can be permitted development on a house, within limits on size, number and noise. A unit that only cools does not qualify. Listed buildings need consent. In a conservation area the outdoor unit should not face a road.

  • Worcester City Council covers Worcester.
  • Malvern Hills District Council covers Malvern, Upton-upon-Severn, Tenbury Wells.
  • Wychavon District Council covers Droitwich Spa, Evesham, Pershore, Broadway.
  • Wyre Forest District Council covers Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn, Bewdley.
  • Bromsgrove District Council covers Bromsgrove and its villages.
  • Redditch Borough Council covers Redditch.

The installer should name the council for your address. You can confirm it yourself before anyone drills. There is a longer explanation in the planning permission guide.

What actually changes from one part of the county to another

On the Malvern Hills, the houses that struggle are often top-floor flats and loft rooms rather than ground floors, and Great Malvern's villas sit in conservation areas with tall ceilings. In the Vale of Evesham the summer problem is often humidity as well as heat, and homes near the Avon need the outdoor unit up off the ground. Redditch's new-town estates and the newer parts of Droitwich are usually simpler cavity-wall houses, though some estates have covenants about equipment on the outside. Bewdley, Tenbury and the villages towards the Wyre Forest include many homes on oil or LPG. A reversible system can heat the rooms it serves in spring and autumn. It does not replace a boiler, heat hot water, or feed radiators.

Riverside towns need the same flood conversation: Stourport, Upton, Bewdley and parts of Worcester. If water has entered the garden before, the outdoor unit and its isolator belong above that line. None of this is a quotation. It is the list of things worth telling the installer when they make contact.

What happens after an enquiry

The form asks which rooms you want to cool, the property type if you know it, your postcode, and how the installer can reach you. Worcester Air Conditioning passes those details to an independent installer and may receive an introduction fee. The installer contacts you to discuss the rooms and whether they need to visit. Any survey, quotation, installation and aftercare is theirs. A quotation ought to list the equipment, the installation, commissioning, making good, and the warranty the manufacturer and the installer each offer. You do not have to go ahead.

Installation has to be carried out by an appropriately F-Gas-certified business. Asking to see the certificate is a normal part of comparing quotations, not a slight.

Tell us the postcode and the rooms. An installer takes it from there.

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Questions about cover across the county

Do you take air conditioning enquiries for the whole of Worcestershire?

Yes. Worcester, the towns on their own pages, and the villages between them. The enquiry asks for a postcode so it can be passed to an independent installer who covers that address. If a postcode sits just over the county boundary, such as Burford in Shropshire next to Tenbury, say so on the form and it can still be passed on.

Which council do I ask about planning permission?

It depends on the address, not the postcode alone. Worcester City Council covers the city. Malvern Hills, Wychavon, Wyre Forest, Bromsgrove and Redditch cover the rest of the county. WR2, WR3 and WR5 all cross the city boundary, so a Worcester postcode is not a guarantee that Worcester City Council is the planning authority. The installer should check, and you can confirm on the council's website.

Are you the company that installs the air conditioning?

No. Worcester Air Conditioning is an enquiry and referral service. An independent installer surveys, quotes, installs and looks after the system. Any contract is with them. We may receive a fee for the introduction.

My village does not have its own page. Can I still enquire?

Yes. The town pages describe the places we are asked about most often. They are not a boundary. A cottage in the Teme valley, a barn conversion outside Evesham or a house between Pershore and Upton is handled the same way: send the enquiry with the postcode.

How is this different from the Worcester page?

The Worcester page is about the city: WR1 to WR5, the Cathedral conservation area, and the differences between St John's, Warndon Villages, Diglis and the rest. This page is about the county, and about which differences (hills, floodplain, new-town estates, off-gas villages) change the questions to ask an installer.

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