Alumhurst Day Centre Alumhurst Road Bournemouth BH4 8ER
Approved on 24 March 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions
Proposal
Prior Approval Application for change of use from offices (Class E (g)(i)) to 6 self-contained two bedroom flats (Class C3)
- Received
- 5 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Westbourne & West Cliff
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Feb
- Consult.Consultation23 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided24 Mar
Decided in 47 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Alumhurst Day Centre Alumhurst Road Bournemouth BH4 8ER. BCP has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 2 weeks quicker than BCP's typical decision time. The site is in the Westbourne conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 118 applications across Westbourne & West Cliff. We hold 220 applications in total for the BH4 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
- BH4 8ER
- Application type
- Prior Notification (Part3.MA: Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouse
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 23 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 23 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 1 Grand Parade Poole BH15 1AD
Additional information
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Westbourne
- 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.
Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202630 Oct
Outline planning permission (some matters reserved) for changes to the internal layout, addition of…
PendingApplicationP/26/05296/OUT - 20269 Jun
T1 Horse Chestnut - Crown lift over church car park to give 5-6m clearance from ground, reduce cover to mid…
ApprovedTree work to tree/s subject to a TPOP/26/02667/TTPO - 202516 Oct
Prior notification for the conversion of the existing two-storey office building into a three-bedroom…
ApprovedOutlineP/25/04176/PNCBD
Source: BCP
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