Land East Of Manor Road North Of Barrow Hill Wick South Gloucestershire Data via plota.co.uk

P25/01850/F - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Creation of vehicular access, track and hard standing. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 15 Oct 2026, 23:26

Application progress

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Received

29 Jul 2025

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Approved

28 Nov 2025

Approved on 28 Nov 2025 · DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE · Last checked 15 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by South Gloucestershire Development Management Committee on 30 Oct 2025.

Approved by 7 votes to 1

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

For7

Against1

Abstained1

The applicant said the new access would not change the openness of the Green Belt and would keep farm traffic away from a listed barn.
A local resident's letter said another vehicular access on the narrow lanes was unreasonable and unnecessary.
The committee voted 7 to 1 with one abstention to grant planning permission.

Read how the committee decided The applicant's case, the objection letter, the highway officer's response and the vote to approve. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of South Gloucestershire's committee minutes of 30 Oct 2025.

Documents 26

Site constraints 6

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.

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Public footpath about 12 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

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

Council: South Gloucestershire
Application type: Full Planning
Received: 29 Jul 2025
Validated: 29 Jul 2025
Ward: Boyd Valley
Parish: Wick And Abson Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 23 Sept 2025
Decision: Approve with Conditions
Decision date: 28 Nov 2025
Decision level: DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Applicant: Show
Agent: Willis And Co Chartered Town Planners

How this decision compares

Decided in 122 days from validation, 47 days slower than South Gloucestershire's median of 75 for full applications. Approved, as 87% of full applications here are.

This one122d

Council75d

UK56d

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

8comments received

1 objecting2 neutral5 supporting

63% support · above the UK average of 16%

9 neighbours consulted · Last counted 15 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14213833
Planning Portal ref: PP-14213833
Comments by: 20 Sept 2025
Statutory expiry: 23 Sept 2025
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

Land East Of Manor Road North Of Barrow Hill Wick South Gloucestershire Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Planning committee

Documents 26

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 7

Plans & drawings 7

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 4

Other documents 5

Site constraints 6

Important details

How this decision compares

Public comments

Consultation & key dates