Two-storey extension planning permission refused in Cotswold

Most were refused over heritage. We read 31 of the 31 two-storey extensions Cotswold refused since September 2024 and sorted each by what its reasons were about. Each dot is one of them.

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Heritage assets 16 of 31
Design and character of the area 13 of 31
Insufficient information 12 of 31
Neighbours' amenity 11 of 31
Trees, landscape and ecology 2 of 31
Flooding and drainage 1 of 31
Green Belt and open countryside 1 of 31
Highways and parking 1 of 31

Each dot is one refusal. A refusal usually gives more than one reason, so it can stand in more than one row.

Also cited: not permitted development (1).

Of the 31 refusals of two-storey extensions Cotswold made since September 2024 that we read, 52% were refused at least in part over harm to heritage. Plan Forecast, 5 November 2026.

Heritage assets

of the refusals we read

16 of the 31 two-storey extensions Cotswold refused that we read gave a reason about a conservation area, a listed building or its setting.

How the councils compare

Westminster 59%
Cotswold 52%
Ashford 32%
North Yorkshire 20%
Stockport 13%
Cheshire West and Chester 11%
Epping Forest 11%
Trafford 10%
York 10%
Buckinghamshire 9%
Wakefield 8%
Ealing 6%
Milton Keynes 6%
Salford 4%
Bromley 3%
Folkestone and Hythe 3%
Croydon 2%
Bolton 1%
Leeds 1%
Manchester 1%
Rochdale 0%

Share of each council's refused two-storey extensions we read that gave a reason about it.

Design and character of the area

of the refusals we read

13 of the 31 two-storey extensions Cotswold refused that we read gave a reason about how the work looked, or how it sat in its street: its size, its shape, its materials.

How the councils compare

Trafford 91%
Folkestone and Hythe 87%
Bromley 81%
Ealing 80%
Bolton 79%
Leeds 79%
Croydon 78%
York 78%
Cheshire West and Chester 77%
Rochdale 77%
Epping Forest 75%
Manchester 74%
Salford 63%
Ashford 61%
Buckinghamshire 60%
Stockport 57%
Milton Keynes 53%
Wakefield 53%
North Yorkshire 52%
Cotswold 42%
Westminster 24%

Share of each council's refused two-storey extensions we read that gave a reason about it.

Insufficient information

of the refusals we read

12 of the 31 two-storey extensions Cotswold refused that we read gave a reason about drawings or details the council needed and did not have.

How the councils compare

Cotswold 39%
Croydon 34%
Westminster 29%
Buckinghamshire 28%
Bolton 20%
Epping Forest 15%
Ealing 11%
Ashford 10%
Wakefield 8%
Folkestone and Hythe 7%
Milton Keynes 7%
Manchester 6%
Cheshire West and Chester 5%
Leeds 5%
North Yorkshire 5%
Bromley 4%
Salford 4%
York 2%
Rochdale 1%
Trafford 1%
Stockport 0%

Share of each council's refused two-storey extensions we read that gave a reason about it.

Neighbours' amenity

of the refusals we read

11 of the 31 two-storey extensions Cotswold refused that we read gave a reason about the people next door: their light, their outlook, their privacy, the sense of being hemmed in.

How the councils compare

Manchester 57%
Salford 57%
Rochdale 51%
Stockport 47%
Croydon 45%
Wakefield 44%
Leeds 43%
Milton Keynes 41%
North Yorkshire 40%
Cotswold 35%
Trafford 35%
Bolton 33%
Ealing 33%
York 33%
Bromley 32%
Cheshire West and Chester 29%
Folkestone and Hythe 27%
Epping Forest 26%
Buckinghamshire 25%
Ashford 15%
Westminster 15%

Share of each council's refused two-storey extensions we read that gave a reason about it.

Also cited

Trees, landscape and ecology 2 of 31
Flooding and drainage 1 of 31
Green Belt and open countryside 1 of 31
Highways and parking 1 of 31
Not permitted development 1 of 31

Policies cited most

The plans and policies Cotswold's refusals named, each counted once a refusal.

National Planning Policy Framework 31 of 31
EN2, Local Plan 26 of 31
EN8, Local Plan 13 of 31
EN1, Local Plan 12 of 31
EN10, Local Plan 12 of 31
EN11, Local Plan 11 of 31

How we count

These are Cotswold's own refusals of two-storey extensions, decided in the last three years and listed on its register. For each one we read the decision notice and sorted its reasons by what they were about. 0 we have not read yet; they are counted as refusals and not as refusals without reasons.

A refusal usually gives more than one reason, so the shares add up to more than a hundred. Which refusals they were, where, and what each said, is in the Planning Forecast for your address, with a link to each council's own notice.

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