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Boat House, Rudds Hotel, Main Road, West Lulworth, Wareham, BH20 5RQ

6/2018/0563Certificate of Lawful Use ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 13 December 2018

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Confirmation that works carried out to convert the building known as The Boat House into habitable room for hotel use constitutes a material commencement of building operations approved under planning permission 6/2004/0819

Submitted
22 October 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lulworth and Winfrith Ward
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated22 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Dec

Decided in 52 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Boat House, Rudds Hotel, Main Road, West Lulworth, Wareham, BH20 5RQ. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 10 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the West Lulworth conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,048 applications in total for the BH20 postcode area.

84% of outline 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
BH20 5RQ
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Lulworth
District
Purbeck

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 October 2018

Additional information

Documents
5

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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© 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. 2018
    22 Oct

    Confirmation that works carried out to convert the building known as The Boat House into habitable room for…

    This applicationRefusedOutline6/2018/0563
  2. 2004
    31 Aug

    Sever existing property to form a separate dwelling; form new pedestrian access

    ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationPart of6/2004/0819

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