# Land at Millend, Brookside Farm, North Nibley

- **Decision:** dismissed, 19 August 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: AJ Sutton
- **Authority:** Stroud (South West)
- **Appeal reference:** 6004495
- **Application reference:** S.25/2245/AGR
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Prior approval (GPDO Sch 2 Part 6 Class A) for extension of an agricultural storage barn
- **Site context:** open-countryside, national-landscape
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** No Framework version cited
- **Determinative policies:** GPDO Sch2 Pt6 Class A(a)
- **Main issues:** permitted development, reasonable necessity for agriculture
- **Tags:** tier-2, no-framework-reference, prior-approval, agricultural-building, reasonably-necessary

## Summary
A Part 6 agricultural prior approval for extending a barn on a roughly 48 ha holding in the Cotswolds National Landscape. Dismissed because the development was not permitted development. With three large barns already there, "reasonable necessity" for more storage was not shown (DL ¶17). The Framework does not apply to a question of GPDO eligibility, and the letter does not cite it.

## What made the difference
Existing covered capacity, and a lack of evidence about the business. "the existing provision of farm buildings could negate the reasonable need for yet more similar buildings for a unit" unless necessity is evidenced (DL ¶11).

## Policy findings
- **GPDO Sch2 Pt6 Class A(a): fail.** agricultural unit of about 48.4 ha accepted, but "reasonable necessity has not been proven": three large existing barns give ample covered storage; "tipping point at which the provision of storage could be disproportionate" (DL 7-17)

## Key facts
- Three sizeable existing barns on the holding; little evidence of the agricultural business supplied
- Council alleged an unauthorised log business; not determinative (DL 19)
- Costs application made; separate decision

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6004495
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/7dbe90e9-314e-4d5f-a588-1d80cc648a89

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