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Malthouse Business Units Ansty Lane Ansty Dorset

2/2016/1852/OTDWPAPrior App - Offices to DwellinghouseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 February 2017

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Change of use from 3 No. business units (Class B1(a)) to 2 No. dwellings (Class C3).

Submitted
16 December 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey Ward
  1. Received16 Dec
  2. Validated16 Dec
  3. Consult.11 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 53 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Malthouse Business Units Ansty Lane Ansty Dorset. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 11 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address.

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

Application type
Prior App - Offices to Dwellinghouse
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hilton
District
North Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 December 2016
Consultation expiry
11 January 2017
Consultation end
11 January 2017

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2017
    7 Mar

    Carry out building works to convert the former business units into 2 No. dwellings. (Change of use previously…

    ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationRelated2/2017/0443/FUL
  2. 2016
    16 Dec

    Change of use from 3 No. business units (Class B1(a)) to 2 No. dwellings (Class C3).

    This applicationApprovedOutline2/2016/1852/OTDWPA

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