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The Cottage The Florence Hotel Lower Wye Valley Road St Briavels Gloucestershire GL15 6QQ

P0855/18/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 5 October 2018

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of ground floor bedroom (No. 4) and en suite to provide a tea room with kitchen and the Change of use of the cottage for dual purpose use of a holiday let and residential accommodation.

Received
22 May 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Newland & St Briavels
  1. Received22 May
  2. Validated5 Jun
  3. Consult.29 Jun
  4. Target31 Jul
  5. Decided5 Oct

Decided in 122 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Cottage The Florence Hotel Lower Wye Valley Road St Briavels Gloucestershire GL15 6QQ. Forest of Dean has handled 447 applications of this type. This one was decided in 136 days, 11 weeks longer than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,311 applications in total for the GL15 postcode area.

100% of amendment 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
GL15 6QQ
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Briavels

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 June 2018
Consultation expiry
13 July 2018
Consultation start
8 June 2018
Consultation end
29 June 2018
Last date for comments
13 July 2018
Target decision date
31 July 2018
Permission expires
5 October 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 June 2018
Site notice end
13 July 2018

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Wye Valley
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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: Forest of Dean

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