Hemsworth Farm, West Buildings, Witchampton, Dorset, BH21 5BW
Approved on 6 March 2020
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Convert existing outbuilding into 2no bedroom single storey dwelling, as amended by plans rec'd 16/01/20
- Submitted
- 18 October 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Cranborne Chase Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted18 Oct
- ValidatedValidated18 Oct
- Consult.Consultation2 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided6 Mar
Decided in 140 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Hemsworth Farm, West Buildings, Witchampton, Dorset, BH21 5BW. Dorset has handled 11,876 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 14 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Cranborne Chase Ward. We hold 2,298 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 5BW
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Witchampton
- District
- East Dorset
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 October 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 2 December 2019
- Consultation end
- 2 December 2019
Additional information
- Documents
- 18
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
- 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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