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Breach House Main Road West Lulworth Wareham BH20 5RJ

P/CLE/2022/06797Certificate of Lawful Use ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 13 February 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of the property as a dwellinghouse and holiday let

Submitted
1 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Purbeck Ward
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 104 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Breach House Main Road West Lulworth Wareham BH20 5RJ. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 9 weeks 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. In the past year there have been 111 applications across West Purbeck Ward. We hold 1,048 applications in total for the BH20 postcode area.

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

Postcode
BH20 5RJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Lulworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 November 2022
Consultation expiry
12 December 2022
Consultation end
12 December 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Norman Court Ashby De La Zouch LE65 2UZ

Additional information

Documents
16

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: Bricklesey CottageOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • 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 (19)

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 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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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2002
    11 Sep

    Erect detached garden shed/summerhouse.

    ApprovedFull Planning Application6/2002/0740

Source: Dorset

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