Land At Berkeley Heath Berkeley Gloucestershire
Refused on 20 March 2026
Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal
Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness for the existing use for the storage of building materials, construction machinery, workshop equipment, filling station equipment & motor vehicles in relation to the use of the business at Berkeley Heath Motors (B8 - Storage or distribution).
- Received
- 23 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Stroud District Council
- Ward
- Berkeley Vale Ward
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Jan
- Consult.Consultation20 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided20 Mar
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Land At Berkeley Heath Berkeley Gloucestershire. Stroud has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Stroud's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Berkeley Vale Ward.
78% of amendment 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
- The applicant has not provided sufficiently precise and unambiguous information to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the local planning authority that the site has been used for the storage of building materials, construction machinery, workshop equipment, filling station equipment and motor vehicles in relation to the use of the business at Berkeley Heath Motors (B8 - Storage or distribution) for an unbroken continuous period in excess of 10 years. Accordingly, the application does not satisfy the provisions of Section 191 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Application type
- Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Alkington Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 20 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 20 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- David James Well House The Chipping Wotton-under-Edge GL12 7AD
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
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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