The Cottage Lower Stone Berkeley Gloucestershire GL13 9DJ
Refused on 7 April 2026
Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal
Proposal
Certificate of lawful use of Land as Residential Garden for a period in excess of 10 years.
- Received
- 13 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Stroud District Council
- Ward
- Berkeley Vale Ward
- ReceivedReceived13 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Feb
- Consult.Consultation20 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided7 Apr
Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at The Cottage Lower Stone Berkeley Gloucestershire GL13 9DJ. Stroud has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Stroud's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 107 applications across Berkeley Vale Ward. We hold 141 applications in total for the GL13 postcode area.
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 entire site has been used as a residential garden (C3 Use Class) for a 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
- Postcode
- GL13 9DJ
- Application type
- Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ham And Stone Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 20 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 20 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- NAPC Limited Watermoor Point Watermoor Road Cirencester GL7 1LF
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Rachel Brown
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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202622 Oct
Certificate of lawful use of Land as Residential Garden (C3 Use Class) for a period in excess of 10 years.
PendingApplicationS.26/1876/CPE - 202617 Apr
Siting of a mobile home for ancillary use to the main dwelling.
ApprovedApplicationS.26/0683/CPL - 20256 Nov
Siting of mobile home for ancillary use to the main dwelling.
RefusedApplicationS.25/2154/CPL
Source: Stroud
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