Block Management in Chipping Campden
Repainting a High Street frontage needs permission, and almost the whole town is radon class 5.
In Chipping Campden we offer block and leasehold management to residents' management companies, RTM companies and freeholders, with fees set out in advance. A 1984 Article 4 direction across the historic core removes the right to repaint exteriors, so cyclical decoration can need an application. Radon is the other constant: 97.9 per cent of the town is class 5, where measurement is advised.
What We Would Put First for a Block in Chipping Campden
Seek Permission Before Cyclical Repainting
The 1984 direction covers 17.61 hectares along the High Street core and removes the right to paint exteriors. Because the published document has no readable street schedule, we would confirm the boundary with Cotswold District Council before any decoration is specified.
ConsentsRecommend Radon Measurement Throughout
Seven of the eight squares over the town are class 5, covering 97.9 per cent of it, and the eighth is class 4. For a Campden block we would recommend measurement in ground-floor communal areas and keep the results in the compliance record.
ComplianceAllow Time for Consent Without an Appraisal
The conservation area covers 28.47 per cent of the town but has no adopted appraisal, only a boundary map. For external works we would build time into the Section 20 programme for consent discussions with the council before contractors price.
Major works and Section 20Inspect for Surface Water, Not River Risk
No warning area covers the town, and the River Stour alert covers 11.02 per cent and names no streets. We would focus inspections on gutters, gullies and surface water drainage rather than river flooding.
InspectionsManaging a Block in Chipping Campden at a Glance
- Local authority
- Cotswold District Council
- Authority type
- District, under the county council
- Building control
- Cotswold District Council Building Control
- County
- Gloucestershire
- Fire and rescue service
- Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- Severn Trent Water
- From our Plymouth office
- About 155 miles in a straight line
- Setting
- Inland
What It Costs to Move a Block in Chipping Campden to Us
Management is a fixed annual fee, quoted for the building and agreed before we start. We take no commission and no third-party incentives, so the fee is the whole of what we earn from the building. Taking a block on carries a one-off start-up fee, set by size:
| Block size | Fee |
|---|---|
| Start-up fee, up to 10 units | £420.00 |
| Start-up fee, up to 25 units | £540.00 |
| Start-up fee, 50 units and above | £660.00 |
Taken from our published Additional Services price list, PBM Form #01-27 rev.6, effective 23 June 2025. All fees quoted are inclusive of VAT. See the full price list and how a handover works.
Exterior Painting Lost Its Permitted Rights in 1984
An Article 4 direction made on 14 August 1984 covers the historic core. It removes two classes of permitted development right under the development order then in force. One is the enlargement, improvement or alteration of a dwellinghouse. The other is gates, fences, walls and other means of enclosure together with exterior painting. That second class is the one that catches people out, because repainting a frontage is cyclical work that would otherwise never involve an application. The direction covers 17.61 hectares, 12.35 per cent of the town, and 99.5 per cent of it sits inside the conservation area, running along the High Street core. The council's published document is a scan with no readable street schedule, so for a block the boundary has to be confirmed with the council before any decoration is specified.
Purpose-Built Blocks Outnumber Conversions Roughly Two to One
The published ward figure should not be used as a town figure here. The Campden and Vale ward holds 2,837 households with 115 in purpose-built blocks, 4.1 per cent, 19 in a converted or shared house, 14 in another converted building and 12 over commercial premises. But only seven of the ward's nineteen census output areas sit inside the built-up town, so nearly two thirds of that stock is elsewhere, at Broad Campden and in the Vale villages. The shape is clearer than the scale. Flats of any kind are a small minority of housing here, and purpose-built blocks outnumber every kind of conversion combined by roughly two to one. Whatever its size, a block here carries the full set of compliance duties, and the budget needs to cover them.
No Flood Warning Area Covers Any of Campden
Chipping Campden has no flood warning area over any part of it. The only Environment Agency designation containing the built-up area is the River Stour in South Warwickshire alert, which covers 11.02 per cent of the town and names no streets. That is a genuinely light flood position for a town of this age. The practical exposure for a block is surface water and drainage, so gutters, gullies and drains matter more here than a mapped river extent.
Five Grade I Entries and No Adopted Appraisal
One conservation area, and the council's published dates disagree: a designation date of 6 June 1986 and a start date of 25 September 1990. At 56 hectares it covers 28.47 per cent of the built-up area, so well over a quarter of the town is inside it. There is no adopted appraisal, only a boundary map. Cotswold District holds 144 conservation areas, the highest number of any district authority in England, and publishes character statements for only about thirteen of them. For a town whose entire high street is the reason for the designation, the absence of a character assessment means there is no adopted document to argue a scheme against. External works to a block therefore need time for consent discussions with the council before contractors price.
205 entries on the National Heritage List fall inside the built-up area, five Grade I and seventeen Grade II*. That gives 22 entries above Grade II, 10.7 per cent of the total, roughly three times Tetbury's share despite Tetbury having more listings overall. The five Grade I entries, all listed on the same day in August 1960, are the Market Hall, the Almshouses, Woolstaplers' Hall, the Church of St James and Grevel's House. A block in the historic core should have its listing status confirmed before any external or internal works are specified.
No Low-Band Radon Ground Anywhere in Town
Class 5 across almost the whole town, two full classes above Tetbury and Fairford. Seven of the eight one-kilometre squares over the built-up area are class 5, covering 97.9 per cent of the town. There, some parts of the square are in bands of elevated radon potential. The maximum radon potential is 10 to 30 per cent of homes at or above the action level, and the advice is that radon measurement is advised. The remaining square is class 4 at 5 to 10 per cent. There is no low-band ground anywhere in the town, so radon measurement in ground-floor communal areas belongs on every block's compliance plan.
Every Address Sits in the Cotswolds National Landscape
Decided under the Cotswold District Local Plan 2011 to 2031, adopted 3 August 2018. A neighbourhood plan is in preparation but not made. The referendum was held on 20 August 2026, but the result had not been published and the plan is still listed among those in development. It covers the parish including Broad Campden. The whole of the built-up area lies inside the Cotswolds National Landscape, so that designation applies to every address in the town and shapes how external works to any block are specified.
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Chipping Campden Questions
Is Chipping Campden at Risk from River Flooding?
Lightly. No Environment Agency flood warning area covers any part of the town. The only designation containing it is the River Stour in South Warwickshire alert, covering 11.02 per cent and naming no streets. The exposure to plan around is surface water and drainage rather than a mapped river extent.
Has the Chipping Campden Neighbourhood Plan Been Made?
Not yet. The referendum was held on 20 August 2026, but the result had not been published and the plan was still listed as in development. It covers the parish including Broad Campden. Decisions are taken under the Cotswold District Local Plan 2011 to 2031, adopted 3 August 2018.
How Significant Are the Listed Buildings in Chipping Campden?
Highly. 205 entries fall inside the built-up area, 22 of them above Grade II, which is 10.7 per cent. The five Grade I entries are the Market Hall, the Almshouses, Woolstaplers' Hall, the Church of St James and Grevel's House, all listed on the same day in August 1960.
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