Land At The Old Forge Bagstone Road Rangeworthy South Gloucestershire GL12 8BD Data via plota.co.uk

P25/01548/F - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Erection of 1 No. detached self-build dwelling over existing redundant swimming pool structure, construction of detached garage and formation of new access, with associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Jun 2025
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Validated
2 Jul 2025
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Consultation
15 Jul 2025
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Approved
19 Feb 2026

Approved on 19 Feb 2026 · DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE · Last checked 15 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by South Gloucestershire Development Management Committee on 8 Jan 2026.

Approved by 7 votes to 0

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the site was sufficiently sustainable and the benefits were not significantly outweighed by adverse impacts.
  • Concerns included the settlement location, access and pedestrian safety, and removing screening near a listed building.
  • Members voted 7:0:1 to approve, subject to a self-build agreement and amended visibility requirements.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, public concerns, committee discussion, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of South Gloucestershire's committee minutes of 8 Jan 2026.

Documents 57

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 6

Public bridleway about 10 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 3. 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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 12 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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

Application type
Full Planning
Postcode
GL12 8BD
Received
24 Jun 2025
Validated
2 Jul 2025
Ward
Frampton Cotterell
Parish
Rangeworthy Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
19 Feb 2026
Decision
Approved - S106 Signed
Decision date
19 Feb 2026
Decision level
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Applicant
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Agent
Derrick Hardwick

How this decision compares

Decided in 232 days from validation, 157 days slower than South Gloucestershire's median of 75 for full applications. Approved, as 87% of full applications here are.

35%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
413decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by South Gloucestershire in the last twelve months, from validation. South Gloucestershire decision record →

Public comments

2comments received
1 objecting1 neutral

5 neighbours consulted · Last counted 15 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
30 Oct 2025
Site or press notice
15 Jul 2025
Statutory expiry
19 Feb 2026
Env. assessment
No
South Gloucestershire
Planning Authority Score
2.8/10
Poor
#239 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

South Gloucestershire ranks #178 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. South Gloucestershire is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 83% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
South Gloucestershire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
85%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #210 of 296
83%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #263 of 296
61%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #178 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #195 of 296
75%
Minor dwellings approved
220 decided (1-9 homes)
93%
Major dwellings approved
15 decided (10+ homes)
84%
Change of use approved
105 decided
1,585
Total decisions
245 refused in the year to March 2026