50 Columbia Road Bournemouth BH10 4DU

P/25/04455/CLECertificate of Lawfulness for existing use or developmentApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 13 January 2026

Council decision: LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate for existing use of premises as a 4 person HMO (Class C4)

Received: 31 October 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Ward: Wallisdown & Winton West

ReceivedReceived31 Oct
ValidatedValidated31 Oct
Consult.Consultation12 Dec
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided13 Jan

Decided in 74 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 50 Columbia Road Bournemouth BH10 4DU. BCP has handled 558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 11 days longer than BCP's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Wallisdown & Winton West. We hold 142 applications in total for the BH10 postcode area.

70% of amendment 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: BH10 4DU
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use or development
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 31 October 2025
Consultation expiry: 12 December 2025
Consultation end: 12 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 16 Fairdene Southwick Brighton BN42 4QN

Additional information

Documents: 8

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.

Source: BCP

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