Tortworth Court Four Pillars Hotel Estate Office Lane Tortworth South Gloucestershire GL12 8HH Data via plota.co.uk

P26/01211/F - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Installation of 5No. EV charging points in existing hotel car park. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:51

Application progress

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Received

27 May 2026

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Approved

9 Jul 2026

Approved on 9 Jul 2026 · Fully Delegated · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 21

Site constraints 8

Registered park or garden: Tortworth Court

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Public footpath about 7 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.

Heritage at risk: Tortworth Court

On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.

A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.

Historic England ↗

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.

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 3; Tree preservation order about 3 m away; Priority habitat about 8 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £50,000 in August 1995. Detached house, freehold.

11 August 1995£50,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: South Gloucestershire
Application type: Full Planning
Postcode: GL12 8HH
Received: 27 May 2026
Validated: 27 May 2026
Ward: Charfield
Parish: Tortworth Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 22 Jul 2026
Decision: Approve with Conditions
Decision date: 9 Jul 2026
Decision level: Fully Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Hampson Architects
Freehold owner: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 43 days from validation, 14 days faster than South Gloucestershire's median of 57 for utility and infrastructure works. Approved, as 93% of utility and infrastructure works here are.

This one43d

Council57d

UK55d

50%decided within 8 weeks

93%approved

33decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by South Gloucestershire in the last twelve months, from validation. South Gloucestershire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

2 neighbours consulted · Last counted 1 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14966540
Planning Portal ref: PP-14966540
Comments by: 29 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry: 22 Jul 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

Tortworth Court Four Pillars Hotel Estate Office Lane Tortworth South Gloucestershire GL12 8HH Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 21

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 5

Plans & drawings 9

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 2

Other documents 2