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Townsend Dairy Farm, Pigs Lane, Town's End, Melbury Osmond, Dorchester, DT2 0LP

1/E/07/000243Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 June 2007

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Proposal

Convert existing agricultural building to storage use (B8 use class)

Submitted
28 February 2007
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Halstock Ward
  1. Received28 Feb
  2. Validated28 Feb
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Jun

Decided in 103 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application at TOWNSEND DAIRY FARM, PIGS LANE, TOWN'S END, MELBURY OSMOND, DORCHESTER, DT2 0LP. Dorset has handled 11,876 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days, 9 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Melbury Osmond conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,420 applications in total for the DT2 postcode area.

92% of full 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 0LP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melbury Osmond
District
West Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 February 2007
Consultation expiry
31 March 2007
Consultation end
31 March 2007
Committee meeting
31 May 2007

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Melbury Osmond Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Town'S End FarmhouseOn or next to this site
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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