Buildings And Land At The Fox Inn High Street Hawkesbury Upton South Gloucestershire GL9 1AU Data via plota.co.uk

P25/01514/F - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Erection of extension to existing public house, installation of fire escape and 3 no. dormer windows with other associated works, to include increase in number of letting rooms from 5no. to 13no. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 Jun 2025
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Validated
15 Aug 2025
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Approved
1 Jun 2026

Approved on 1 Jun 2026 · DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by South Gloucestershire Development Management Committee on 28 May 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the works would help retain a viable pub without unacceptable parking, heritage, design or residential amenity impacts.
  • The parish council and a resident raised concerns about parking, the private driveway, the public footpath, residential amenity and unclear plans.
  • The committee unanimously granted permission and authorised an additional condition requiring the car parking spaces to be marked out.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of South Gloucestershire's committee minutes of 28 May 2026.

Documents 71

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

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.
Hawkesbury Conservation Area 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 ↗
3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Duke of Beaufort Public House, Grade II, about 6 m from the postcode pin · 3 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Show all 3 with distances
Historic England ↗
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.
UKHSA radon ↗
Public footpath about 28 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.
Also on the record
Inside the Hawkesbury Upton built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 16 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.

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Important details

Application type
Full Planning
Postcode
GL9 1AU
Received
18 Jun 2025
Validated
15 Aug 2025
Ward
Chipping Sodbury And Cotswold Edge
Parish
Hawkesbury Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
1 Jun 2026
Decision
Approve with Conditions
Decision date
1 Jun 2026
Decision level
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Applicant
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Agent
Martin Bence-Wilkins (P)

How this decision compares

Decided in 290 days from validation, 215 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

3comments received
2 objecting1 neutral

67% object · below the UK average of 74%

22 neighbours consulted · Last counted 16 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
25 Mar 2026
Statutory expiry
1 Jun 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