An exclusive Cotswolds club frequented by A-listers has applied for planning permission to erect a marquee.

Soho Farmhouse in Chipping Norton, Oxon., hopes to install an outside structure to host weddings and functions.

The venue, located on the same road as The Beckhams’ home, hosted Meghan Markle's hen party and is a regular haunt for many celebrities.

Planning documents lodged with West Oxfordshire District Council say when the club at Great Tew opened to members and guests in 2015 the approved development included an events facility known as the ‘Barwell Barn’.

With a bar, substantial kitchen, indoor and outdoor cloakrooms, and a large level lawn area, it was designed to host private events such as weddings, as well as corporate and public events.

However, the weekly delivery, erection and dismantling of a series of marquees to suit each event has proved to be disruptive.

"Access to the marquee lawn is via Tracey Lane and a narrow track through the site, and the movement of large vehicles each week, together with associated vans and cars used by the marquee team is disruptive, especially to what is essentially a car free site," a planning statement says.

The new marquee "will not result in any change in terms of the number of events held, the number of guests attending those events and the amount of traffic generated".

Soho Farmhouse trialled a "higher quality ‘Orangery’ structure" last summer and it "was considered to be a significant improvement on the traditional canvas marquee both in terms of appearance and practicality", say documents.

A similar structure which will be required for an event taking place on August 25 and on New Year’s Eve.

In between, it is expected that it will be used for other special events held every year such as Halloween, Farm Fireworks on bonfire night, Christmas Carol Concert plus occasional use for the usual private and corporate events.

For 2024 a contract has been agreed to hire ‘an innovative new marquee-like structure’  of a post and beam frame with ‘glazed gable walls’ set back from the overhanging pitched canvas roof, says the planning statement.

It will be erected on the Barwell Barn lawn covering 30 by 24 metres with a maximum height of 10.5 metres.