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Croomes Grove Farm Owlpen Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 5BZ

S.26/0377/AGRAgricultural NotificationRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 20 March 2026

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

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Erection of a wood chip storage barn.

Received
4 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Coaley & Uley Ward
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 16 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Croomes Grove Farm Owlpen Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 5BZ. Stroud has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 16 days, 5 weeks quicker than Stroud's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Coaley & Uley Ward. We hold 952 applications in total for the GL11 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 failed to demonstrate that the proposed wood chip storage barn complies with the definitional requirements of Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A and Class E of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended). This is because the wood chips will be stored for commercial onward sale, which is considered to not fall under the scope of permitted development for agricultural purposes or land management forestry purposes.
  2. The development does not comply with part (c) of Schedule 2, Part 6, Class E of the General Permitted Development Order as the proposed wood chip storage barn will be situated within approximately 16 metres of the metalled portion of a classified road, which is within the 25 metre restriction.
  3. The development does not comply with Schedule 2, Part 6, Class E part (d) of the General Permitted Development Order which states that 'any building for storing fuel for, or waste from, a biomass boiler or an anaerobic digestion system would be used for storing waste not produced by that boiler or system or for storing fuel not produced on land which is occupied together with that building for the purposes of forestry'. As the wood chips would be produced on site but then stored for onward commercial sale, they would cease to be 'fuel produced on land occupied together with that building for the purposes of forestry as the wood chips will not be used solely for a biomass burner on site'.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GL11 5BZ
Application type
Agricultural Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Owlpen Meeting

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Malcolm Hunt Design Ltd Frome Lodge High Street Chalford Stroud GL6 8DJ

Planning decision

Case officer
Elizabeth Powell

Additional information

Documents
6

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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