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The Cottage, Mill Lane, CHIDEOCK

1/W/01/001836Certificate of Lawful Use ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 4 March 2002

Council decision: Refer to File / Check NoticeDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use - Use of land to station caravan

Submitted
6 December 2001
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received6 Dec
  2. Validated6 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Mar

Decided in 88 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Cottage, Mill Lane, CHIDEOCK. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 88 days, 7 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Chideock and Seatown conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

76% of amendment 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

Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chideock
District
West Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 December 2001

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Chideock, Chideock North and Seatown Conservation Area 1 (Chideock)
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Cottage the Cottage and Trimm Cottage Trimm CottageOn this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Bridport to LymeRegis 1+1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • Heritage coast: West Dorset

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

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, 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

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© 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.

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Source: Dorset

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