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Land Adjacent To Sunset View Cottage Breadstone Berkeley Gloucestershire

S.25/2392/FULRefused

Refused on 4 March 2026

Council decision: Refusal2 reasons for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Retrospective permission for the construction of an agricultural store/workshop.

Received
12 December 2025
  1. Received12 Dec
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Mar

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Land Adjacent To Sunset View Cottage Breadstone Berkeley Gloucestershire. Stroud has handled 7,904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Stroud's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address.

Why it was refused

  1. The proposal has failed to demonstrate that the building is reasonably required for agricultural purposes. No details have been provided regarding the machinery, activities, or scale of the agricultural operations said to justify the development, and the size of the building appears disproportionate to the management needs of the agricultural land. The building is poorly sited, being located on a parcel of land separate from the agricultural land. The proposal therefore fails to demonstrate an essential or justified countryside-related purpose, contrary to Stroud District Local Plan Policy CP15 and NPPF guidance.
  2. The building, by virtue of its poor standard of finish, commercial appearance, and use of light green metal cladding, fails to demonstrate appropriate design. The structure does not reflect its agricultural use and does not integrate successfully with its rural setting and results in an unacceptable level of harm to the character and appearance of the countryside.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2026

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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: Stroud

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