Yes, in most of Bishop's Cleeve, but the old core and Woodmancote are another matter. A few dozen listed buildings sit in and around the village. Two conservation areas cover the historic parts. Most of the housing is modern and comes with the usual rights to extend. The neighbours are already applying for planning permission in large numbers.
Historic England lists 58 buildings in and around the village: one at grade I, five at grade II* and 52 at grade II. Listing covers the inside as well as the outside, so almost any change to a listed building needs listed building consent, from moving a wall to replacing a window. Doing the work without consent is a criminal offence, and the new owner inherits the problem along with the house. The grade I building is the one a heritage officer will scrutinise hardest. The 52 at grade II are where most owners of listed homes end up dealing with the council.
There are two conservation areas, Bishop's Cleeve and Woodmancote, and that's where the rules tighten for ordinary houses as well. Inside them, demolition needs consent, works to trees need notice, and alterations visible from the street get closer scrutiny. Permitted development rights can also be narrower than elsewhere. The village's oldest streets are inside those boundaries, and the estates that went up later around them mostly aren't.
The neighbours aren't waiting for permission to be easy. Between April 2024 and June 2026, 2,769 planning applications were lodged across the wider area, and 1,181 of them came in the twelve months to June 2026. That counts every application, from loft conversions to larger schemes, and it says nothing about how many were approved. It does show that people here alter their homes constantly, and that whoever lives next door to you has probably already been through the planning system.
One listed building in the area is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk register. That means a building whose condition worries the national heritage body enough to monitor it. Its repairs may qualify for grant money and will certainly get close scrutiny. For someone buying a nearby semi, it changes nothing.
Outside the two conservation areas and away from the listed buildings, most homes have the standard permitted development rights. Within set limits, a single-storey rear extension, a loft conversion or an outbuilding can often go ahead without a full planning application. On estates, though, the original planning permission sometimes removed some of those rights. Ask Tewkesbury Borough Council whether any condition on the estate's original permission limits what can be added to the house you're looking at. A conservatory that's fine three roads away can need a full application on an estate where those rights were taken away when it was built.
How free you are to extend is middling, and it depends on the street. On the later estates it's mostly paperwork. In the conservation areas, and on the 58 listed buildings, the council will have a say over almost every change.