Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed21 August 20253363461

Old Church Rooms, Church Way, Blakeney, Gloucestershire, GL15 4DT

Planning appeal 3363461 at Old Church Rooms, Church Way, Blakeney, Gloucestershire, GL15 4DT (Forest of Dean District Council) was allowed on 21 August 2025 by Inspector Kent R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect that varying or removing condition 1 would have on the living conditions of occupiers of adjoining dwellings with regard to loss of privacy.

Variation of Condition 1 relating to planning permission P0938/24/NONMAT to extend the timescale for the implementation of privacy screens by an additional 5 months; renovation of existing roof terrace and associated works

Authority
Forest of Dean District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Other minor developments
Inspector
Kent R
Postcode
GL15 4DT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect that varying or removing condition 1 would have on the living conditions of occupiers of adjoining dwellings with regard to loss of privacy

What decided it

A revised condition requiring the screens to be installed prior to first use of the roof terrace would achieve the same privacy protection as the disputed fixed-date condition while accommodating the delay caused by the honeybee colony relocation.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Core Strategy Policy CSP.1Forest of Dean Allocations Plan 2018 Policy AP 4

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

7 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Forest of Dean

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

  1. Allowed23 September 20266008171
    Land Adjacent to Parkend Club, Castlemain, Parkend, GL15 4JZ
  2. Dismissed5 August 20266008731
    11 The Scarr, Newent, GL18 1DQ
  3. Dismissed20 July 20266006083
    Land At 33 High Street, Lydney, GL15 5DP
  4. Dismissed20 July 20266005801
    Land Adjacent Swan House Tea Room, Cone Valley, Woolaston, GL15 6AD
  5. Dismissed8 July 20266001129
    Land Between Redhouse and Bluebell Cottage, Brockhollands,, Bream, GL15 4PP

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.