W H Smith 9-13 Old Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 1DY

7-2024-1708-MFull Planning PermissionApproved

Full

Approved on 3 April 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of an internal extract flue routed through the lift shaft and exiting via the motor room at roof level and kitchen intake louvre on rear elevation.

Received: 20 November 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council

ReceivedReceived20 Nov
ValidatedValidated29 Nov
Consult.Consultation10 Jan
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided3 Apr

Decided in 125 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at W H Smith 9-13 Old Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 1DY. BCP has handled 4,721 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 10 weeks longer than BCP's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Christchurch Road conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 215 applications in total for the BH1 postcode area.

86% of full applications at Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: BH1 1DY
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 29 November 2024
Consultation expiry: 10 January 2025
Consultation start: 10 December 2024
Consultation end: 10 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 51-52 St. John’s Square London EC1V 4JL

Additional information

Documents: 10

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Old Christchurch Road
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Source: BCP

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