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Acorn Lodge Oakdene Nursing and Care Home Ringwood Road THREE LEGGED CROSS BH21 6RB

3/17/1856/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 27 September 2017

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolish an existing glazed fire escape to Oakdene Care Home and erect a new two storey extension linking Oak Lodge with Oakdene Care Home, install a new dormer window and create new window openings to the existing building facades to improve internal living spaces for residents.

Submitted
3 August 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Leonards Ward
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated3 Aug
  3. Consult.24 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a dormer extension at Acorn Lodge Oakdene Nursing and Care Home Ringwood Road THREE LEGGED CROSS BH21 6RB. Dorset has handled 11,876 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 13 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,300 applications in total for the BH21 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
BH21 6RB
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Verwood
District
East Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 August 2017
Consultation expiry
24 August 2017
Consultation end
24 August 2017

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Land at Lower Common
  • 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, 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, National Landscapes, 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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© 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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Associated applications

  1. 2020
    16 Mar

    Non material amendment to P/A 3/17/1856/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendment3/20/0450/NMA
  2. 2017
    3 Aug

    Demolish an existing glazed fire escape to Oakdene Care Home and erect a new two storey extension linking Oak…

    This applicationApprovedFull3/17/1856/FUL

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