18-20 Market Street Poole BH15 1NF
Approved on 21 August 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of offices to form 2 no. 5 bed houses, replacement rooflight at no.18 Market Street and for creation of rooftop terrace with staircase access and access rooflight at no.20 Market Street.
- Received
- 10 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Poole Town
- ReceivedReceived10 Mar
- ValidatedValidated11 Mar
- Consult.Consultation15 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided21 Aug
Decided in 163 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 18-20 Market Street Poole BH15 1NF. BCP has handled 4,721 applications of this type. This one was decided in 164 days, 14 weeks longer than BCP's typical decision time. The site is in the Town Centre Heritage conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Poole Town. We hold 332 applications in total for the BH15 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
- BH15 1NF
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 15 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 13 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 15 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Office A5 The Arena Business Park Holyrood Close Poole BH17 7FJ
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Darren Henry
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Town Centre Heritage
- Listed building: Grade II: Lamp Post Approximately 10 Metres South of Number 18On or next to this site · +1 more
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- 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 (18)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
Associated applications
- 202610 Mar
Listed Building Consent for internal alterations, including layout changes and removal of links between nos…
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideP/26/01055/LB - 202610 Mar
Change of use of offices to form 2 no. 5 bed houses, replacement rooflight at no.18 Market Street and for…
This applicationApprovedFullP/26/01056/FUL
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: BCP
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Nearby applications
- 18-20 Market Street Poole BH15 1NFP/26/01055/LB · HeritageApproved0.0 mi
- 18-20 Market Street, Poole, BH15 1NFAPP/24/00657/L · HeritageRefused0.0 mi
- 5 Angel Mews St Aubyns Court Poole BH15 1LTP/26/02501/TCA · TreesApproved0.0 mi
- 8 New Street Poole BH15 1JTP/26/03415/HOU · FullApproved0.0 mi
- Horizon House New Orchard Poole BH15 1LYP/26/01771/FUL · FullApproved0.1 mi
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Contractors near this project
Find contractors for roofing near this site- N B Mills (Building Contractors) LtdPoole0.3 mi
- S.H Electrical (Dorset) LtdElectrician0.4 mi
- B Ide ElectricalElectrician0.7 mi
- Paul Scrivens ElectricalElectrician0.9 mi
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