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The Rag Cottage Church Lane Alvington Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6BH

P1811/21/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 March 2022

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to allow the accommodation within the Annexe to be used as ancillary accommodation to the main house andas a short-term unit of accommodation for tourists. (retrospective).

Received
28 October 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
11
Ward
St Briavels
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.21 Feb
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 140 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Rag Cottage Church Lane Alvington Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6BH. Forest of Dean has handled 447 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 12 weeks longer than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. The site is in the Alvington conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across St Briavels. 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 6BH
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Alvington

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2021
Consultation expiry
22 February 2022
Consultation start
31 January 2022
Consultation end
21 February 2022
Neighbour consultation start
1 February 2022
Neighbour consultation end
22 February 2022
Last date for comments
22 February 2022
Target decision date
24 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Ms J Norris South Wing First Floor Council Offices Trinity Road Cirencester GL7 1PX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
1 December 2021
Advertisement expiry
22 December 2021
Site notice start
25 November 2021
Site notice end
16 December 2021

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Alvington Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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, National Landscapes, 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.

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

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

Source: Forest of Dean

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