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The Lord Bute Hotel 181 - 185 Lymington Road Christchurch BH23 4JS

8/24/0882/LBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 27 January 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Internal and External Alterations to facilitate the change of use of part of the Commercial Restaurant Kitchen and Store to Dwelling House (revised scheme)

Received
27 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Highcliffe & Walkford
  1. Received27 Dec
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.30 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 340 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at The Lord Bute Hotel 181 - 185 Lymington Road Christchurch BH23 4JS. BCP has handled 142 applications of this type. This one was decided in 396 days, 48 weeks longer than BCP's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 173 applications across Highcliffe & Walkford. We hold 3,215 applications in total for the BH23 postcode area.

87% of heritage 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
BH23 4JS
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Highcliffe & Walkford Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2025
Consultation expiry
30 April 2025
Consultation start
7 March 2025
Consultation end
30 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Studio 2 The Focus Building 1 Crimea Road Bournemouth BH9 1AP

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    27 Dec

    Change of use of part of Commercial Restaurant Kitchen and stores to form a dwelling house and Erection of…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside8/24/0881/FUL
  2. 2024
    27 Dec

    Internal and External Alterations to facilitate the change of use of part of the Commercial Restaurant…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent8/24/0882/LB

Source: BCP

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