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Knapp Mill Water Treatment Works Mill Road Christchurch BH23 3LY

8/25/0063/CONDRRemoval or Variation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 September 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)23 conditions

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

Proposal

Proposed improvements and main operational building, to house advanced water treatment and processing plant and equipment, ancillary storage buildings, structures, external tanks, drainage lagoon, and earth bunding/landscaping, together with other ancillary development, at existing Water Treatment Works (necessitated pursuant to Drinking Water Inspectorate regulatory requirements) Variation of Condition 2 of planning application 8/22/0446/FUL to amend drawings

Received
31 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Christchurch Town, Commons
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated31 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 595 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Knapp Mill Water Treatment Works Mill Road Christchurch BH23 3LY. BCP has handled 279 applications of this type. This one was decided in 595 days, 76 weeks longer than BCP's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 3,222 applications in total for the BH23 postcode area.

87% of conditions 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 3LY
Application type
Removal or Variation of Condition
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Christchurch Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 January 2025
Consultation expiry
27 June 2025
Consultation start
7 February 2025
Consultation end
27 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
23 Heddon Street London W1B 4BQ

Planning decision

Case officer
Clare McCarthy

Additional information

Documents
172

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    4 Dec

    Non-material amendment to application reference 8/22/0446/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendment8/24/0823/NMA

Source: BCP

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