Bridge Farm, Birmingham Road, Kings Coughton

26/01447/FUL · Stratford-on-Avon District Council · officer (delegated) · decided 28 September 2026 · granted

Retrospective permission for a farm shop building with decking, lighting and parking, in the Green Belt.

Cited in: 3. The reason given for discounting CS.8; 4. Location shortcuts in the Green Belt

Why this is cited. The mistake: the report used the same wording as Snitterfield, Forest Farm and Ilmington to declare CS.8 materially inconsistent, in a case where no heritage asset was affected, and then found the scheme compliant with CS.8. It is also cited in section 4 for a step it got right: it said in terms that S5 does not apply to sites in the Green Belt.

Key points

CS.8: HE5 "provides a new set of criteria for assessments of the potential effects on development proposals on the significance of heritage assets which is not required within CS.8 of the CS, I consider that CS.8 is materially inconsistent with the NDMPs of the Framework" (p.7).
No heritage asset was affected: "The application site does not include any Listed Buildings and the application site is not in a Conservation Area or an area of archaeological risk" (p.7). The report then finds that "the proposal is compliant with policy CS.8 of the Core Strategy and NDMP HE5 of the NPPF" (p.7).
Green Belt route: "Policy S5 does not apply to sites within the Green Belt" (p.3).

Quotations are from the officer report, decision notice or appeal decision letter, with page (p.) or paragraph (¶) numbers. Read the decision itself for the full reasoning.

Summarised for the note on Stratford decisions under the August 2026 NPPF. Not legal advice. Back to the note.