Ardencroft, Cloweswood Lane, Earlswood

26/01614/FUL · Stratford-on-Avon District Council · officer (delegated) · decided 24 September 2026 · refused

Two-storey side and rear extension and remodelling of a detached house, in the Green Belt.

Cited in: 4. Location shortcuts in the Green Belt

Why this is cited. SDC got this right, and the note uses it as the benchmark for section 4. The report applied the Annex B definition by name: a site in the Green Belt at Earlswood is not within a settlement, S5 does not apply, and the scheme is assessed under GB6 and GB7. Eight days later the Malthouse Lane report, in the same village, tested its scheme against a policy for sites within settlements.

Key points

Settlement: applying the Annex B definition, "the application site is not considered to be within a settlement because it lies within the Green Belt" (p.2).
Route: S5 "does not apply to development proposals within the Green Belt. Instead, such proposals are required, as a starting point to be assessed in accordance with Policies GB6 and GB7" (p.2).
The report also found the site to be in "a linear concentration of development which clearly forms part of the village" (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.