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Sewage Treatment Works Pipplepen Lane South Perrott

P/ESC/2025/07348EIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 January 2026

Council decision: Not EIA DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion - Installation of proposed new wastewater treatment plant within an operational area of the existing South Perrott Water Recycling Centre (WRC).

Submitted
12 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Beaminster Ward
  1. Received12 Dec
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Jan

Decided in 32 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Sewage Treatment Works Pipplepen Lane South Perrott. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 10 days 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.

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

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
South Perrott

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Operations Centre Claverton Down Road Claverton Down Bath BA2 7WW

Additional information

Documents
3

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)Part of the site
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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

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© 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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