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Kilminster Road Prefab Site, Stroud

40 temporary prefabs were constructed at Kilminster Road, Bisley Old Road Stroud in about February 1947. This is a stub for a longer report on this site

Sunnyhill, Cashes Green

Sunnyhill is a Aluminium Prefab site likely to be part of the “permament” AIROH programme started at Hawksley in Brockworth in November 1947. This is currently a basically populated page…

Gloucester Rural District Council Building Plans 1900 to 1974

530 Building Byelaw Plans submitted for schemes within the area of Gloucester Rural District between 1935 and 1961 are currently catalogued on the Gloucestershire Archives DA27/710/1 catalogue. Another 1500 have…

Midland Building Developments Limited

I came across reference to Midland Building Developments Limited owning land near Green Street Brockworth in the Gloucester Rural District Council minute book for the Civic Year 1955-56 in relation…

Gloucester Rural District Building Plan

In time this will become an index of all plans but for now it is a short list of plans considered during 1950-51 Civic Year Plan Number Name Particulars of…

Gloucester Rural District Council Records

Gloucester Rural District Council was a pre 1974 Gloucestershire District Council covering 36 parishes encircling the County Borough of Gloucester stretching northwards along the eastern bank of the River Severn…

List of DMMO Applications by Chas Townley

Updated: 29 July 2025 I first submitted a DMMO Application in 1992 for adding a footpath at Paganhill in Stroud, which at the time was resolved relatively quick and is…

Gloucestershire Unresolved DMMO Applications

Updated: 30 July 2025 There are currently 200 unresolved Definitive Map Modification Order applications within Gloucestershire. the table below gives a summary of the current situation. These include 154 undetermined…

Gloucestershire Unresolved DMMO Applications

Updated: 29 July 2025 There are currently 39 Definitive Map Modification Order Applications which Gloucestershire County Council has determined but remain to be “Resolved”. This includes applications where “work is…

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