Watt House Farm,High Bradfield, Data via plota.co.uk

NP/GDO/0926/0874 - Application under the GPDO Refused

Proposal

GDO Notification - Erection of a fully enclosed, mono-pitch agricultural building Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 29 Oct 2026, 02:52

Application progress

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Received

7 Sept 2026

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Refused

30 Sept 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 30 Sept 2026 · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 10

Site constraints 8

Peak District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Bradfield 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 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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 Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

6 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: K6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction With Kirk Edge Road, Grade II, about 36 m from the postcode pin · 6 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 6 with distances

36 mK6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction With Kirk Edge RoadGrade II
101 mChurch Cottage Vestry Cottage Wesley CottageGrade II
122 mStables to Old Post OfficeGrade II
133 mOld Post OfficeGrade II
138 mGate Piers, Gates and Iron Railings to South and East of Churchyard at Church of St NicholasGrade II
146 mAshby CottagesGrade II

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Scheduled monument about 200 m away: Castle Hill motte and bailey castle, High Bradfield; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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.

Building

Floor area84 m² (904 sq ft)

Energy ratingE (43 out of 100), could reach C

PropertySemi-detached house, 5 habitable rooms

Built1930 to 1949

HeatingBoiler and radiators, mains gas

WallsCavity wall, as built, no insulation (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in May 2018, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council: Peak District
Application type: Application under the GPDO
Received: 7 Sept 2026
Validated: 7 Sept 2026
Parish: Bradfield
Case officer: Show
Decision: Refused
Decision date: 30 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 23 days from validation, 13 days faster than Peak District's median of 36 for agricultural works. Refused, as 11% of agricultural works here are.

This one23d

Council36d

UK46d

75%decided within 8 weeks

89%approved

58decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Peak District in the last twelve months, from validation. Peak District decision record →

Public comments

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 4 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 2 Oct 2026

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.