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St Dominics Roman Catholic Primary School St Marys Hill Inchbrook Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 5HP

S.26/0288/FULFull Planning ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 18 June 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use of existing F1 building to Residential (C3). Part demolition, part conversion & extension of existing building to form one dwelling. Construction of new dwelling adjacent. New parking, cycle & refuse storage

Received
18 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Amberley & Woodchester Ward
  1. Received18 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.1 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Jun

Decided in 111 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at St Dominics Roman Catholic Primary School St Marys Hill Inchbrook Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 5HP. Stroud has handled 3,349 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 10 weeks longer than Stroud's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Amberley & Woodchester Ward. We hold 576 applications in total for the GL5 postcode area.

86% of full 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 proposed development would encroach upon and harm the setting of the adjacent Grade I listed Church of the Annunciation, eroding its visual primacy, interrupting important views, and diminishing its historic relationship with St. Dominic's School. The identified harm, whilst less than substantial, is not outweighed by the public benefits of the scheme. The proposal therefore fails to preserve the setting of a designated heritage asset, contrary to Section 66(1) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, paragraphs 207, 208, 212 and 213 of the National Planning Policy Framework, and Policies ES10 and CP14 of the Stroud District Local Plan.
  2. The proposed development, by reason of its siting, orientation, scale, massing, form and design, would result in an overly prominent and visually intrusive form of development that fails to respect the sensitive rural and historic context of the site. As such, it would detract from the character and appearance of the area and is contrary to Policies ES10 and CP14 (criteria 5, 8 and 9) of the Stroud District Local Plan

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GL5 5HP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woodchester Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2026
Consultation expiry
1 April 2026
Consultation end
1 April 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Laurence Corbett

Additional information

Documents
26

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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