Blackhedge Farm Leckhampton Hill Leckhampton Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9QJ Data via plota.co.uk
26/00253/CLE - Cert of Lawfulness of exist use/develop
Refused
Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness (Existing Use or Development) for Class E(g)(iii) industrial use of land and buildings at Blackhedge Farm Data via plota.co.uk
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Received
26 Mar 2026
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Consultation
15 Apr 2026
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Refused
21 May 2026
Appeal
Not lodged
Refused on 21 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026
Documents 3
Decision & officer reports 1
Application forms 1
Consultation & comments 1
Site constraints 8
Green belt: Cheltenham and Gloucester
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Cotswolds National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
National nature reserve about 57 m away: The Cheltenham Escarpment
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
SSSI about 56 m away: Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 1288 m away: A417 Missing Link.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site
Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.
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Important details
- Council
- Tewkesbury
- Application type
- Cert of Lawfulness of exist use/develop
- Postcode
- GL53 9QJ
- Received
- 26 Mar 2026
- Validated
- 26 Mar 2026
- Ward
- Shurdington
- Parish
- Shurdington
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 21 May 2026
- Decision
- Refuse Certificate
- Decision date
- 21 May 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated Decision
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- McLoughlin Planning
Consultation & key dates
- Alt. reference
- PP-14813333
- Planning Portal ref
- PP-14813333
- Consultation
- 15 Apr 2026
- Comments by
- 6 May 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 21 May 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
24 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
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Previous applications at this address
2023
Refused
Permission in principle for the erection of a single dwelling with associated works
2023
Refused
Permission in principle for the erection of a single dwelling with associated works
2022
Approved
Retention of an area of hardstanding, and the erection of a stable block for private eque…
2022
Approved
Retention of an area of hardstanding, and the erection of a stable block for private eque…
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2024
Refused
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2024
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2022
Approved
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Removal of Conditions 3 (restriction of use), 4 (external lighting) and 5 (landscaping) o…
2022
Approved
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2022
Withdrawn
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2022
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Erection of a first floor front extension. Erection of a single storey front and side ext…
2022
Approved
Rosemead Leckhampton Hill Leckhampton Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9QJ
Erection of replacement double garage
2022
Approved
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Erection of replacement double garage
2021
Withdrawn
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Erection of a double garage with home office
2020
Approved
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Application for approval of details subject to condition 6 (Landscaping), of the planning…
2020
Approved
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2020
Approved
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2020
Approved
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2018
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2018
Approved
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Construction of replacement dwelling involving demolition of existing dwelling and ancill…
2017
Approved
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Single storey extension to front and rear. Extension of timber decking at rear to match e…
2017
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Single storey extension to front and rear. Extension of timber decking at rear to match e…
2017
Refused
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Construction of replacement dwelling involving demolition of existing dwelling and ancill…
2017
Refused
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2017
Refused
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Tewkesbury
Planning Authority Score
3.7/10
Below average
#212 of 296 councils
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Householder decisions
Tewkesbury ranks #197 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 50% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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Tewkesbury decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #144 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #139 of 296
57%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #197 of 296
50%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #228 of 296
69%
Minor dwellings approved
89 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
12 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
37 decided
689
Total decisions
74 refused in the year to March 2026
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