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Os 5600, Golden Cap Holiday Park, Golden Cap Caravan Park, Seatown, Bridport, DT6 6JX

1/D/11/001757Certificate of Lawful Use ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 5 December 2011

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed recurrent seasonal use of the land for agriculture and siting tents for up to 41 days between 22nd July and 31st August each year is not a material change in use from the use permitted by the Established Use Certificate dated 26th July 1984 and therefore is not 'development' as defined by Section 55(1) Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Submitted
21 October 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chideock and Symondsbury Ward
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 45 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at OS 5600, GOLDEN CAP HOLIDAY PARK, GOLDEN CAP CARAVAN PARK, SEATOWN, BRIDPORT, DT6 6JX. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 3 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,726 applications in total for the DT6 postcode area.

84% of outline applications at Dorset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DT6 6JX
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chideock
District
West Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2011
Consultation expiry
26 November 2011
Consultation end
26 November 2011

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Bridport to LymeRegis 1+1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • Heritage coast: West Dorset
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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: Dorset

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