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Land at Elms Farm, Elms Cross, BA15 2AL

PL/2025/08747Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 19 February 2026

Council decision: Refuse1 reason for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Erection of a self-build dwelling with hard and soft landscaping, parking and associated works following demolition of the existing agricultural barn.

Submitted
14 November 2025
Ward
Winsley & Westwood ED
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 97 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Land at Elms Farm, Elms Cross, BA15 2AL. Wiltshire has handled 9,967 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 288 applications in total for the BA15 postcode area.

93% of full applications at Wiltshire 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 result in the creation of a new dwelling in the open countryside outside any defined settlement boundary. Although part of the site benefits from an extant Class Q prior approval for converting the existing agricultural building, this proposal is materially different to the Class Q fallback position, as it seeks to extend the site area and introduce a larger new dwelling with a larger curtilage, altered siting, footprint, scale and built form. This would result in a significantly greater visual impact on the site and surrounding landscape than the approved fallback.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
BA15 2AL
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Westwood CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Consultation expiry
29 January 2026
Consultation end
29 January 2026
Target decision date
19 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
97 days

Additional information

Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Wiltshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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: Wiltshire

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