The Cottage, Town Hall Lane, Swanage. (now The Old Bakehouse)
Proposal
Change of use from residential to form ground floor shop.
- Received
- 15 November 2000
- Decided
- 20 December 2000 · Refused
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dorset Council
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- ReceivedSubmitted15 Nov
- ValidatedValidated15 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided20 Dec
Decided in 35 days (council typically 42)
This is an application to amend a permission at The Cottage, Town Hall Lane, Swanage. (now The Old Bakehouse). Dorset has handled 1,395 applications of this type and approves 83% of them, typically deciding them in 44 days. This one was decided in 35 days, 9 days quicker than Dorset's median. The site is in the Swanage conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.
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Planning constraints
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- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: Swanage Conservation Area
- National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
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Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
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