Land At Henfield Road Coalpit Heath South Gloucestershire Data via plota.co.uk

P25/01995/F - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Installation of 4no. additional static caravan pitches and erection of brick day room with associated works (to include retention of existing fences and walls). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 Aug 2025
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Validated
21 Aug 2025
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Approved
6 Mar 2026

Approved on 6 Mar 2026 · DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by South Gloucestershire Development Management Committee on 5 Mar 2026.

Approved unanimously

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

  • The agent said consultees raised no objection, and that planting four trees would deliver a biodiversity net gain.
  • Officers confirmed the site met the persons test required for Gypsy and Traveller use.
  • Members unanimously granted planning permission subject to the conditions in the officer report.
Read how the committee decided The biodiversity gain promised, and the vote to grant the Gypsy and Traveller site. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of South Gloucestershire's committee minutes of 5 Mar 2026.

Documents 55

Statements & assessments 8

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 21 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 17 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 13 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 11 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Name hidden Show Consultation Replies · 10 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Name hidden Show Consultation Replies · 27 Aug 2025 View ↗
PDF PLANNING STATEMENT Supporting Document · 19 Aug 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 35

PDF WESSEX WATER Consultee Comment · 23 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF RNS WESTERLEIGH AND COALPIT HEATH PARISH COUNCIL-OBJECTS(FULL) Consultation Replies · 9 Dec 2025 View ↗
PDF Name hidden Show Consultation Replies · 8 Dec 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 26 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 26 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 25 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 25 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF SGC TREE OFFICER-LB Consultee Comment · 24 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 24 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 24 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 20 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 19 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Name hidden Show Consultation Replies · 19 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 16 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 16 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF HIGHWAY STRUCTURES -MWINYI Consultee Comment · 14 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Nov 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 19 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 18 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 1 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF RESPONSE TO 3RD PARTIES Supporting Document · 24 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 14 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 13 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF SGC TREE OFFICER Consultee Comment · 9 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF WESTERLEIGH AND COALPIT HEATH PARISH COUNCIL Consultation Replies · 9 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 9 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultation Replies · 4 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 4 Sept 2025 View ↗
PDF SGC HIGHWAY STRUCTURES - MWINYI Consultee Comment · 29 Aug 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

Green belt: Bath and Bristol
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.
Read the government guidance ↗
Public footpath about 9 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 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) agrees.
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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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
Received
18 Aug 2025
Validated
21 Aug 2025
Ward
Frampton Cotterell
Parish
Westerleigh And Coalpit Heath Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
6 Mar 2026
Decision
Approve with Conditions
Decision date
6 Mar 2026
Decision level
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Applicant
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Agent
Bluestone Planning

How this decision compares

Decided in 197 days from validation, 122 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

19comments received
18 objecting1 neutral

95% object · above the UK average of 74%

27 neighbours consulted · Last counted 16 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
26 Nov 2025
Statutory expiry
6 Mar 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