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Bishops Cottage, Main Road, West Lulworth.

6/2001/0556Change Of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 October 2001

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing bar to integral domestic garage.

Submitted
20 July 2001
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 81 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Bishops Cottage, Main Road, West Lulworth.. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 6 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the West Lulworth conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

76% of amendment 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
Change Of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Lulworth
District
Purbeck

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2001

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: West Lulworth Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Mill Pond CottageOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • SSSI: South Dorset Coast SSSIPart of the site
  • Special Area of Conservation: Isle of Portland to Studland CliffsPart of the site
  • Heritage coast: Purbeck
  • 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 (17)

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, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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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