Yes, in most of Charfield you can extend with fewer obstacles than in many villages. Nine listed buildings. No conservation area. Most of the houses are post-war and can be altered without anyone treating them as precious. The planning office here mostly sees ordinary extensions.
Charfield has nine listed buildings, all Grade II, with none at Grade I or Grade II*. Listing means any alteration that affects a building's character, inside or out, needs listed building consent on top of ordinary planning, and that covers the windows, the doors and often the roof. For the nine owners concerned, that is real paperwork. For everyone else in the village, listing does not apply. With no conservation area either, the extra layer of control that covers whole streets elsewhere does not exist here.
The planning records show people using that freedom. There were 677 applications in the area between April 2024 and June 2026, and 302 in the most recent twelve months. That is a steady stream of kitchens, lofts and side extensions working their way through South Gloucestershire Council, and it makes the village a place where an extension is a normal thing to plan.
In practice, outside the nine listed buildings and with no conservation area, an ordinary house in Charfield usually falls under the national permitted development rules, which allow many single-storey rear extensions, loft conversions and outbuildings within size limits without a full planning application. Anything bigger or closer to a boundary goes to the council in the usual way. One check is worth making: ask the seller's solicitor whether the original planning permission for the house removed its permitted development rights, because conditions like that are sometimes attached to estate houses and are invisible from the pavement. On a post-war estate, the restriction worth looking for is in the old planning paperwork.
Freedom to extend is one of Charfield's real strengths. Unless the house is one of the nine, the main limits are the size of the plot and the budget.