Longmynd House Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG Data via plota.co.uk

26/02326/FUL - Full Planning Application Refused
Change of useSchools, care & communityCommercial premises

Proposal

Conversion from residential use to an activity space for visitor groups in association with Carding Mill Valley. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
25 Jun 2026
✓
Consultation
26 Jun 2026
✗
Refused
20 Aug 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 20 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 22 Aug 2026

Documents 7

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DECISION Decision · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF OFFICER REPORT Officer Report · 20 Aug 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF STATEMENT Planning statement · 22 Jun 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 22 Jun 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 3

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗
PDF NATURAL ENGLAND Consultee Comment · 14 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF NATIONAL TRUST RESPONSE Correspondence · 6 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Shropshire Hills 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.
Church Stretton conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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 5. 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 12 m away: Long Mynd 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: Sssi
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.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
Scheduled monument about 224 m away: Bodbury Ring: a large univallate hillfort on the summit of Bodbury Hill.; Priority habitat about 14 m away: Upland heathland; Open access land about 14 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Not green belt

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 £70,000 in June 1998. Detached house, freehold.

4 June 1998£70,000

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

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Important details

Council
Shropshire
Application type
Full Planning Application
Postcode
SY6 6JG
Received
25 Jun 2026
Validated
25 Jun 2026
Ward
The Strettons
Parish
Church Stretton
Case officer
Show
Target decision
20 Aug 2026
Decision
Refuse
Decision date
20 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Freehold owner
Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Refused, as 27% of changes of use here are.

53%decided within 8 weeks
73%approved
147decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Shropshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Shropshire decision record →

Public comments

7comments received
7 objecting

100% object · above the UK average of 74%

Last counted 22 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15024180
Planning Portal ref
PP-15024180
Comments by
29 Jul 2026
Site or press notice
26 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
20 Aug 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

12 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2024 Approved
The Cottage Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
Fell 1no Horse Chestnut within Church Stretton Conservation Area
24/00333/TCA
2021 Approved
The Old Factory Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire
Replacement of all windows and external doors
21/00296/FUL
2019 Approved
Flats 5 And 6 The Old Factory Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
Integration of two apartments into one apartment together with proposed staircase and deck
19/05428/FUL
2019 Approved
Mill View Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
To carry out a Crown reduction of 1.5m 1no Ash tree (A), Crown reduction of 1m 1no Hawtho…
19/04121/TCA
2018 Approved
Mill View Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
Works to trees (See Schedule) within Church Stretton Conservation Area
18/03593/TCA
2018 Approved
The Mill House Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton SY6 6JG
Works to T1, T3, T4, T5 Hawthorn, previously Pollarded. Renew Pollarding to renovate exis…
18/00144/TCA
2017 Approved
Bodbury Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton SY6 6JG
Discharge of Condition 4 (roof materials) for planning application number 16/01422/FUL
17/00966/DIS
2016 Approved
The Mill House Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton SY6 6JG
Erection of single storey extension on first floor terrace
16/05674/FUL
2017 Approved
Mill View Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
Works to trees as per description of works within the Church Stretton conservation area.
17/00219/TCA
2016 Approved
The Mill House Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton SY6 6JG
To fell 2 No Fir Trees within Church Stretton Conservation Area
16/04630/TCA
2016 Approved
Chalet Pavilion Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
Erection of shelter for educational groups
16/01507/FUL
2016 Approved
Mill View Cardingmill Valley Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6JG
Works to trees as per attached schedule within Church Stretton Conservation Area
16/00807/TCA
Shropshire
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#53 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Shropshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #53 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Shropshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #179 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #136 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #53 of 296
29%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #50 of 296
68%
Minor dwellings approved
350 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
35 decided (10+ homes)
78%
Change of use approved
27 decided
2,083
Total decisions
273 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold owner: Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Source: HM Land Registry, UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales, September 2026 release.