Blakewood House, Merley Park Road, Wimborne, BH21 3DB

APP/23/01469/PAPrior Approval OthersApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 February 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior approval to add additional floor to create 4 bedrooms.

Received: 22 December 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Ward: Bearwood & Merley

ReceivedReceived22 Dec
ValidatedValidated22 Dec
Consult.Consultation12 Feb
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided13 Feb

Decided in 53 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at Blakewood House, Merley Park Road, Wimborne, BH21 3DB. BCP has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 10 days quicker than BCP's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Bearwood & Merley. We hold 2,298 applications in total for the BH21 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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Application details

Postcode: BH21 3DB
Application type: Prior Approval Others
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 December 2023
Consultation expiry: 12 February 2024
Consultation start: 28 December 2023
Consultation end: 12 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Chapel Studios 14 Purewell Christchurch Dorset BH23 1EP

Additional information

Documents: 17

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Green belt: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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