diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index a0baffc83..843e55efb 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@ By order of apparition, thanks:
     * Max Malysh (Dropbox large file support)
     * Scott White (Google Cloud updates)
     * Alex Watt (Google Cloud Storage patch)
+    * Janusz Skonieczny (Google Cloud Storage limited permission workaround)
     * Jumpei Yoshimura (S3 docs)
     * Jon Dufresne
 
-
-
 Extra thanks to Marty for adding this in Django,
 you can buy his very interesting book (Pro Django).
diff --git a/storages/backends/gcloud.py b/storages/backends/gcloud.py
index 3ea9d6b5b..8e49705e6 100644
--- a/storages/backends/gcloud.py
+++ b/storages/backends/gcloud.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.utils.deconstruct import deconstructible
 from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes, smart_str
+from google.cloud.storage import Bucket
 
 from storages.utils import check_location, clean_name, safe_join, setting
 
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ class GoogleCloudStorage(Storage):
     bucket_name = setting('GS_BUCKET_NAME')
     location = setting('GS_LOCATION', '')
     auto_create_bucket = setting('GS_AUTO_CREATE_BUCKET', False)
+    always_get_bucket = setting('GS_ALWAYS_GET_BUCKET', True)
     auto_create_acl = setting('GS_AUTO_CREATE_ACL', 'projectPrivate')
     default_acl = setting('GS_DEFAULT_ACL')
 
@@ -125,6 +127,13 @@ def _get_or_create_bucket(self, name):
         """
         Retrieves a bucket if it exists, otherwise creates it.
         """
+        if not self.always_get_bucket:
+            # If permissions are limited. Call to get_bucket (below) results in:
+            # 403 Caller does not have storage.buckets.get access to bucket.
+            # Even if bucket actually exists
+            # So we don't get_bucket, we just create it's proxy here
+            return Bucket(client=self.client, name=name)
+
         try:
             return self.client.get_bucket(name)
         except NotFound:
diff --git a/tests/test_gcloud.py b/tests/test_gcloud.py
index a3e85fb6d..4ffac3aaf 100644
--- a/tests/test_gcloud.py
+++ b/tests/test_gcloud.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 try:
     from unittest import mock
 except ImportError:  # Python 3.2 and below
@@ -19,6 +18,7 @@
 
 
 class GCloudTestCase(TestCase):
+
     def setUp(self):
         self.bucket_name = 'test_bucket'
         self.filename = 'test_file.txt'
@@ -169,6 +169,36 @@ def test_exists_bucket_auto_create(self):
         self.assertTrue(self.storage.exists(''))
         self.storage._client.create_bucket.assert_called_with(self.bucket_name)
 
+    def test_bucket_auto_create_true(self):
+        self.storage.auto_create_bucket = True
+        self.storage._client = mock.MagicMock()
+        self.storage._client.get_bucket.side_effect = NotFound('dang')
+
+        self.assertIsNotNone(self.storage.bucket)
+        self.storage._client.create_bucket.assert_called_with(self.bucket_name)
+
+    def test_bucket_always_get_bucket_false(self):
+        """
+        If auto_create_bucket is False getting a bucket property should not bother
+        with checking for bucket existence.
+
+        If permissions are limited. Call to get_bucket (below) results in:
+        403 Caller does not have storage.buckets.get access to bucket.
+        Even if bucket actually exists
+
+        Let it fail later on usage of non-existent buckets.
+
+        This prevents preemptive fails when client user does not have privileges to create buckets.
+        """
+        self.storage.always_get_bucket = False
+        self.storage._client = mock.MagicMock()
+
+        bucket = self.storage.bucket
+        self.assertFalse(self.storage._client.get_bucket.called)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(bucket)
+        self.assertEqual(bucket.name, self.bucket_name)
+        self.assertEqual(bucket.client, self.storage._client)
+
     def test_listdir(self):
         file_names = ["some/path/1.txt", "2.txt", "other/path/3.txt", "4.txt"]
         subdir = ""
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 63118553d..a9a568306 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ deps =
 	boto3
 	dropbox
 	google-cloud-storage
+	cryptography<2.0 ; python_version < '3.4'
 	paramiko
 
 [testenv:flake8]
@@ -35,3 +36,6 @@ deps =
 commands =
 	flake8
 	isort --recursive --check-only --diff storages/ tests/
+
+[pytest]
+DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = tests.settings