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Portland Substation Victoria Square Chiswell Portland DT5 1AL

P/CLP/2026/00794Certificate of Lawful Use ProposedWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 17 March 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness to install a new 11kV switch room building at the existing Portland substation site. The building will be located to the west of the existing substation within land owned by SSEN, adjacent to existing transformers. It is required to support installation of new Quantum 13CB 11kV switchboard Additional works, include a slight extension of the site to the west and installation of 2.4m high fence with razor wire surrounding the proposed site expansion area (located within SSENs ownership and considered operational extent)

Submitted
10 February 2026
Ward
Portland Ward
  1. Received10 Feb
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at Portland Substation Victoria Square Chiswell Portland DT5 1AL. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 35 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Portland Ward. We hold 112 applications in total for the DT5 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
DT5 1AL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Portland

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Bredon Court Brockeridge Road Twyning Tewkesbury GL20 6FF

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High 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 (23)

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, 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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