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Apple Tree Farm White Pit Lane East Melbury Shaftesbury SP7 0DT

P/CLE/2024/01331Certificate of Lawful Use ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 5 September 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

The siting of one caravan and its use for residential purposes. The use of the area of land used in association with and incidental to the residential occupation of the caravan for parking, as a garden and for associated domestic activities

Submitted
11 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Beacon Ward
  1. Received11 Mar
  2. Validated11 Mar
  3. Consult.11 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Sep

Decided in 178 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Apple Tree Farm White Pit Lane East Melbury Shaftesbury SP7 0DT. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 178 days, 19 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 121 applications across Beacon Ward. We hold 1,993 applications in total for the SP7 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
SP7 0DT
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melbury Abbas

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 March 2024
Consultation expiry
11 April 2024
Consultation end
11 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ivy Cottage Everetts Lane Shillingstone Blandford Forum Dorset DT11 0SJ

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
  • SSSI: Fontmell and Melbury Downs SSSIPart of the site
  • Special Area of Conservation: Fontmell & Melbury DownsPart of the site
  • 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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