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Portway Farm Portway Upton St Leonards Gloucester Gloucestershire GL4 8DP

S.26/0019/AGRAgricultural NotificationRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 22 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Notification RefusalDelegated (officer decision)3 reasons for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Erection of an agricultural building.

Received
5 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Painswick And Upton Ward
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 17 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Portway Farm Portway Upton St Leonards Gloucester Gloucestershire GL4 8DP. Stroud has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 5 weeks quicker than Stroud's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across Painswick And Upton Ward. We hold 474 applications in total for the GL4 postcode area.

89% of all applications at Stroud District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The applicant has not provided any material evidence of agricultural need. As such, the proposal fails to demonstrate the proposal is "reasonably necessary for the purposes of agriculture", in compliance with Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).
  2. The submitted information indicates a development parcel of less than 0.4 hectares and does not present evidence that this parcel is not separate from the 5 hectares agricultural requirement or the 140 hectares unit declared. Therefore this proposal, to erect a new building, does not comply with Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).
  3. The combined area of development in a two year period, for buildings within 90 metres of one another would exceed 1500 square metres, therefore this proposal for a new building 33 metres from the existing, does not comply with Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GL4 8DP
Application type
Agricultural Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upton St Leonards

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2026

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Cotswolds
  • 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 (21)

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, 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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