Block Management in Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow packs 117 listed entries into a built-up area of 80 hectares.
Block, estate and leasehold management from Plymouth Block Management is available to residents' management companies, RTM companies and freeholders in Stow-on-the-Wold. No Environment Agency flood area touches the town, but class 5 radon covers 97.3 per cent of it. Around the market square, flats sit over shops and in converted buildings.
What We Would Put First for a Block in Stow-on-the-Wold
Obtain Listed Building Consent Before Works
Of Stow's 117 listed entries, 114 sit inside a conservation area that has no appraisal or character map. For a block in the centre we would confirm listed status and obtain consents before specifying any works.
ConsentsRecommend Radon Measurement
Class 5 covers 97.3 per cent of the town, with no low-band ground anywhere, and measurement is advised. We would arrange radon measurement in ground floor communal areas and keep the results with the compliance record.
ComplianceSeparate Shop and Flat Costs
Flats over commercial premises make up 2.4 per cent of Stow households. For a mixed building we would set service charge apportionments that separate residential costs from the commercial units below.
Service chargesManaging a Block in Stow-on-the-Wold 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
- Thames Water
- From our Plymouth office
- About 150 miles in a straight line
- Setting
- Inland
What It Costs to Move a Block in Stow-on-the-Wold 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.
117 Listed Entries Packed into 80 Hectares
One conservation area, designated on 4 November 1970 and covering the town jointly with the neighbouring hamlet of Maugersbury, with a later record date of July 1989. There is no appraisal and no character map, only a boundary map. At 35.39 hectares it covers 23.8 per cent of the built-up area. So nearly a quarter of this small, tight town is designated with no adopted character assessment behind it. For a block in the area, consent for external works is best discussed with the council before a major works specification is fixed.
117 entries on the National Heritage List fall inside the built-up area, which covers just 80 hectares. One of them is Grade I, the parish church of St Edward. Four are Grade II*: the Masonic Hall, St Edward's House, the King's Arms Hotel and the Royalist Hotel. 114 of the 117 sit inside the conservation area. For a block in the centre, listed status should be confirmed, and any consent needed for works that affect its character obtained, before works are specified.
Flats over Shops Around the Market Square
The Stow ward reaches well beyond the town, with 1,222 households. The built-up area itself has 590 households, of which 42 are in purpose-built blocks, 7.1 per cent. Seven are in a converted or shared house, 11 in another converted building and 14 over commercial premises. Those last two categories, at 1.9 and 2.4 per cent respectively, reflect flats over shops around the market square. Those blocks need service charge apportionments that separate residential costs from the commercial units below.
The River Flood Question Is Closed on the Hilltop
No Environment Agency flood warning or alert area contains any part of Stow-on-the-Wold. The town sits on the hilltop, with the nearest floodplain on the Dikler nearly a kilometre downslope. The Dikler warning area is labelled as running between Stow-on-the-Wold and Bourton-on-the-Water, and its description names Hyde Mill near Slaughter woods, Stow-on-the-Wold. Yet the area itself does not touch the Stow built-up area at all, stopping about 1.25 kilometres away. For a block here the river flood question is closed, and insurers should be given the block's actual position rather than the area label.
Class 5 Radon over 97 Per Cent of the Town
Effectively uniform. Of the six one-kilometre squares over the built-up area, class 5 covers 97.3 per cent of the town. In those squares, some parts 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 radon measurement is advised. The remaining fraction is class 4 at 5 to 10 per cent. There is no low-band ground anywhere in the town. Every block here should have radon measured in ground floor flats and communal areas, with results kept on the compliance record.
Entirely Inside the Cotswolds National Landscape
Decided under the Cotswold District Local Plan 2011 to 2031, adopted 3 August 2018. The Stow-on-the-Wold and the Swells Neighbourhood Plan was made on 3 October 2024, following a referendum on 26 September 2024 carried by 82 per cent of those voting. There is no Article 4 direction: Stow appears nowhere among the district's 22 directions. The whole of the built-up area lies inside the Cotswolds National Landscape. Consents for alterations to a block are tested against both plans and the landscape designation.
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Stow-on-the-Wold Questions
Is Our Stow-on-the-Wold Block at Risk from the River Dikler?
No Environment Agency flood warning or alert area contains any part of the town. The Dikler warning area names Stow-on-the-Wold in its description, but its polygon stops about 1.25 kilometres from the built-up area. The town sits on the hilltop, with the nearest floodplain on the Dikler nearly a kilometre downslope.
Is There an Article 4 Direction in Stow?
No. Stow appears nowhere among the district's 22 directions. The whole built-up area lies inside the Cotswolds National Landscape, and the conservation area, designated 4 November 1970, covers 23.8 per cent of the town with only a boundary map.
Which Neighbourhood Plan Covers Stow-on-the-Wold?
The Stow-on-the-Wold and the Swells Neighbourhood Plan, made on 3 October 2024 after a referendum on 26 September 2024 carried by 82 per cent of those voting. It sits alongside the Cotswold District Local Plan 2011 to 2031, adopted 3 August 2018.
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