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Boar Hill Barn Charborough Park Wareham BH20 7EL

P/CLE/2026/02681Certificate of Lawful Use ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 10 July 2026

Council decision: Granted

Proposal

A Certificate of Lawfulness is sought to regularise the use of Boar Hill Barn as a commercial sawmill (use class B2) with external storage of timber.

Submitted
15 May 2026
Ward
Lytchett Matravers and Upton Ward
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Boar Hill Barn Charborough Park Wareham BH20 7EL. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Lytchett Matravers and Upton Ward. We hold 1,049 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 7EL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Morden

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2026
Consultation expiry
9 June 2026
Consultation end
9 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Liberty House Greenham Business Park Thatcham RG19 6HS

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: 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, 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, National Landscapes, 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.

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.

Source: Dorset

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