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60 Plum Tree Cottage, Bell Street, Swanage.

6/2000/0130Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 31 May 2000

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolish existing garage and utility room and erect new dwelling and garage with link utility room, modify vehicular access.

Submitted
28 February 2000
Decision level
Planning committee
  1. Received28 Feb
  2. Validated28 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided31 May

Decided in 93 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 60 Plum Tree Cottage, Bell Street, Swanage.. Dorset has handled 11,876 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 7 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Herston conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.

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

Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swanage
District
Purbeck

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 February 2000
Committee meeting
29 March 2000

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Herston Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Virginia CottageOn this site
  • 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 (20)

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, 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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Associated applications

  1. 2000
    28 Feb

    Demolish existing garage and utility room and erect new dwelling and garage with link utility room, modify…

    This applicationApprovedFull6/2000/0130
  2. 2000
    28 Feb

    Demolish existing garage and utility room and erect new dwelling and garage with link utility room, modify…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside6/2000/0131

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