Ridge Hill Airfield Court Farm Buckland Newton Dorchester DT2 7BT

P/CLE/2024/05116Certificate of Lawful Use ExistingRefused

Lawful development certificate

Refused on 15 January 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Use as light aircraft landing strip for fixed wing and helicopters for any qualified pilots including use of barn as aircraft hangar and storage of associated goods and equipment, with more than one aircraft on site.

Submitted: 16 September 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Dorset Council
Ward: Chalk Valleys Ward

ReceivedSubmitted16 Sep
ValidatedValidated16 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 Jan

Decided in 121 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ridge Hill Airfield Court Farm Buckland Newton Dorchester DT2 7BT. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 11 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 95 applications across Chalk Valleys Ward. We hold 2,420 applications in total for the DT2 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: DT2 7BT
Application type: Certificate of Lawful Use Existing
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Buckland Newton

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Office Court Farm Buckland Newton Dorchester DT27BT

Additional information

Documents: 23

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
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 (22)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, 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.

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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.

Source: Dorset

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