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Central car park Upper Hinton Road Bournemouth BH1 2HH

P/25/04818/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 3 February 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

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

Proposal

The proposal seeks temporary change of use of part of the Central Car Park, Bournemouth (adjacent to Gervis Place), to a construction site compound for approximately 18 months, commencing January 2026. The compound is required to support the delivery of the Westover Road Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) project, which aims to improve bus priority and public realm in Bournemouth town centre. The compound will include: Welfare facilities (toilet, canteen, drying room, office, meeting room); Secure materials storage area; Perimeter fencing (Heras panels) with controlled vehicle access gates; Defined circulation routes for safe access and egress. At the end of the project, the compound will be dismantled and the car park reinstated to its original use.

Received
21 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bournemouth Central
  1. Received21 Nov
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 50 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Central car park Upper Hinton Road Bournemouth BH1 2HH. BCP has handled 4,721 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 11 days longer than BCP's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Christchurch Road conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 139 applications across Bournemouth Central. We hold 215 applications in total for the BH1 postcode area.

86% of full 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
BH1 2HH
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2025
Consultation expiry
30 January 2026
Consultation start
16 December 2025
Consultation end
30 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
BCP Council Civic Centre Bournemouth Dorset BH2 6DY

Additional information

Documents
9

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: Old Christchurch 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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