New housing in Cotswold District Council
We read Cotswold District Council's planning register every day. We hold 18,001 of its planning applications going back to 2016, and 76 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 68% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 68% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 18,001
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 66 | 28 | 5 |
| 2025 | 65 | 46 | 11 |
| 2024 | 51 | 35 | 10 |
| 2023 | 70 | 41 | 19 |
| 2022 | 62 | 48 | 7 |
| 2021 | 96 | 81 | 7 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,150 | Outside Cotswold District Gloucestershire Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Request relating to an Outline planning application for the erection of up to 1,150 dwellings (Use Class C3), up to 80 bedroom care facility (Use Class C2), riverside park, open… 25/03545/NEI | Decided | 6 Nov 2025 |
| 195 | Land East Of Cotswold Business Village And South Of London Road London Road Moreton-In-Marsh Gloucestershire Reserved Matters relating to layout, scale, appearance and landscaping (pursuant to outline planning permission reference 25/01036/OUT, appeal ref. 6002934) for 195 dwellings, together with associated drainage, highway… 26/03109/REM | Decided | 3 Nov 2026 |
| 195 | Land East Of The Cotswold Business Park London Road Moreton-In-Marsh Gloucestershire Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) screening opinion in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) to determine whether an EIA is… 25/00381/SCR | Approved | 4 Feb 2025 |
| 150 | Land East Of Aston Road Aston Road Chipping Campden Gloucestershire EIA Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (the EIA Regulations) to determine whether or not a statutory Environmental Impact Assessment… 25/03689/SCR | Approved | 20 Nov 2025 |
| 150 | Land South Of Ferrers Park Lechlade Gloucestershire Request for an EIA Screening Opinion for 150 residential dwellings (Use Class C3); highways access from Station Road; demolition of Cotswold Bungalow; and associated landscaping, earthworks, sustainable drainage… 25/03440/SCR | Approved | 27 Oct 2025 |
| 81 | Land West Of Kingham Railway Station Station Road Kingham Consultation : Outline planning application with all matters reserved (except access), for the erection of up to 81 dwellings, including 50% affordable housing, and up to 5,000 sq ft of Class E commercial floorspace 26/03417/NEI | Decided | 2 Nov 2026 |
| 54 | Land North Of The Wern Lechlade Gloucestershire GL7 3DN Residential development of up to 54 residential dwellings (Class C3 use); highway access from The Wern; and associated landscaping, earthworks, parking, engineering works and infrastructure. All matters reserved except… 24/03501/OUT | Refused | 28 Nov 2024 |
| 50 | Land Parcel Easting 412005 Northing 214473 Nostle Road Northleach Gloucestershire Request for a formal EIA Screening Opinion for Outline Planning Application for the erection of 50 dwellings (all matters reserved except access) plus infrastructure and associated works at Land to the east of Nostle… 26/00237/SCR | Approved | 23 Jan 2026 |
| 48 | Land To East Of Nostle Road Northleach Gloucestershire Request for a formal EIA Screening Opinion for Outline Planning Application for the erection of 48 dwellings (all matters reserved except access) plus infrastructure and associated works at Land to the east of Nostle… 25/02874/SCR | Approved | 12 Sept 2025 |
| 25 | Land West Of Broad Marston Lane Mickleton Gloucestershire Outline planning application for the erection of up to 25 dwellings, with access to be determined and all other matters reserved, together with associated landscaping, public open space, green infrastructure, drainage… 26/03150/OUT | Decided | 4 Nov 2026 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Ampney Crucis
- Andoversford
- Arlington
- Avening
- Beverston
- Bledington
- Blockley
- Bourton-on-the-Water
- Brimpsfield
- Broadwell
- Chedworth
- Chipping Campden
- Cirencester
- Coates
- Down Ampney
- Eastleach Turville
- Ebrington
- Ewen
- Fairford
- Great Rissington
- Guiting Power
- Hatherop
- Kemble
- Kempsford
- Lechlade-on-Thames
- Leckhampton Hill
- Little Rissington
- Longborough
- Meysey Hampton
- Mickleton (Cotswold)
- Moreton-in-Marsh
- Naunton
- Northleach
- Paxford
- Poulton
- Quenington
- Rendcomb
- Shipton (Cotswold)
- Siddington
- Somerford Keynes
- South Cerney
- Southrop
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- Stratton (Cotswold)
- Tetbury
- Upper Oddington
- Upper Rissington
- Westonbirt
- Willersey
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Cotswold District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.