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Mountjoy School Land at Lane End Farm Tunnel Road Beaminster DT8 3HB

P/ESC/2025/06246EIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 November 2025

Council decision: Response Given

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Screening Opinion for a Special Educational Needs (SEN) farm school, outreach facility, inclusion pod, and associated visitor amenities

Submitted
20 October 2025
Ward
Beaminster Ward
  1. Received20 Oct
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 24 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Mountjoy School Land at Lane End Farm Tunnel Road Beaminster DT8 3HB. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 3 weeks quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Beaminster Ward. We hold 601 applications in total for the DT8 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
DT8 3HB
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Beaminster

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Savannah House 3 Ocean Way Ocean Village Southampton SO14 3TJ

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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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