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Ladder And Fencing Industries Ltd Horsefair Lane Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1RP

P0527/25/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 10 September 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Use Class B2, B8 to the use as a motorcycle showroom, storage, workshop and cafe (Use Class B2, B8, E and Sui Generis).

Received
29 April 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
14
Ward
Newent & Taynton
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated19 Jun
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Ladder And Fencing Industries Ltd Horsefair Lane Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1RP. Forest of Dean has handled 4,443 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 11 weeks longer than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Newent & Taynton. We hold 1,182 applications in total for the GL18 postcode area.

91% of full applications at Forest of Dean District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GL18 1RP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Newent

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 June 2025
Consultation expiry
8 September 2025
Consultation start
28 August 2025
Consultation end
8 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
28 August 2025
Last date for comments
8 September 2025
Target decision date
18 September 2025
Committee meeting
9 September 2025
Permission expires
10 September 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 July 2025
Advertisement expiry
23 July 2025
Site notice start
27 June 2025
Site notice end
18 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
64

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: DFTPO4Part of the site
  • Brownfield land register: Old Station Rd NewentRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    23 Sep

    Discharge of Condition 08 (car parking) of planning permission P0527/25/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditionsP1125/26/DISCON
  2. 2025
    29 Apr

    Change of use from Use Class B2, B8 to the use as a motorcycle showroom, storage, workshop and cafe (Use…

    This applicationApprovedFullP0527/25/FUL

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