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10 Melville Road Bournemouth BH9 2PL

P/26/00432/CLECertificate of Lawfulness for existing use or developmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 April 2026

Council decision: LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate of existing use. The whole house (6 bedrooms) has been used as an HMO for more than 10 years, with only very brief (less than 2 weeks) breaks in between each tenancy.

Received
2 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Winton East
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 10 Melville Road Bournemouth BH9 2PL. BCP has handled 558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 3 days longer than BCP's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Winton East. We hold 211 applications in total for the BH9 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
BH9 2PL
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use or development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2026
Consultation expiry
16 March 2026
Consultation end
16 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
12 Crescent Rd Poole Dorset BH14 9AS

Additional information

Documents
4

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.

Source: BCP

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