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9-11 Knole Road Bournemouth BH1 4DQ

7-2024-23073-DOutline Planning PermissionRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 4 September 2026

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Outline submission for Demolition of existing dwellings and erection of a 4 storey building comprising 16 flats, underground refuse storage area, secure bicycle storage area, communal gardens and associated landscaping and infrastructure with some matters reserved

Received
17 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
East Cliff & Springbourne
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated17 May
  3. Consult.3 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 840 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at 9-11 Knole Road Bournemouth BH1 4DQ. BCP has handled 792 applications of this type. The site is in the Knole Road conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across East Cliff & Springbourne. We hold 215 applications in total for the BH1 postcode area.

76% of outline 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development, by virtue of its deficient layout and unachievable site levels, fails to provide a safe, sustainable, and free-draining layout, rendering the scheme fundamentally unbuildable as submitted. The positioning of the proposed rainwater harvesting system and soakaway directly within an acknowledged surface water overland flow path—which experiences current flood depths exceeding 150mm during frequent 30-year storm events—directly contravenes Section 3.13 of the National Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) Standards. Furthermore, the depressed Finished Floor Level (FFL) creates an unsafe dependency on mechanical pipework networks at the front entrance, introducing an unacceptable risk of catastrophic flooding to the primary residential escape route during a system blockage or exceedance event. Remedying these level defects is prevented by on-site spatial constraints, resulting in concurrent access paths with severe, steep gradients (up to

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
BH1 4DQ
Application type
Outline Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
16

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 May 2024
Consultation expiry
3 December 2025
Consultation start
29 October 2025
Consultation end
3 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr James Blake Anniversary House 23 Abbott Road Bournemouth BH9 1EU

Planning decision

Case officer
Piotr Kulik

Additional information

Documents
63

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: Knole 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: BCP

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