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Lyons Head Farmhouse, Lyons Head Farm, Cosmore, Dorchester, DT2 7TW

1/D/12/000540Prior App - Building for Agricultural/Forestry UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 May 2012

Council decision: Prior Approval Not Required

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Proposal

The building will be a steel portal frame building, totally enclosed on all sides with two large doors. It is a large agricultural holding with many items of machinery. The building is to be for secure storage of all movable items. The new building will be for general storage and housing of machinery, and the LeanTo extension is for keeping tractors under cover

Submitted
16 April 2012
Ward
Piddle Valley Ward
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 28 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at LYONS HEAD FARMHOUSE, LYONS HEAD FARM, COSMORE, DORCHESTER, DT2 7TW. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 2 weeks quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,420 applications in total for the DT2 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
DT2 7TW
Application type
Prior App - Building for Agricultural/Forestry Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Buckland Newton
District
West Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2012
Consultation expiry
14 May 2012
Consultation end
14 May 2012

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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, 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.

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Source: Dorset

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