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54-55 & 56 Durweston Blandford Forum DT11 0QA

P/FUL/2024/03469Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 31 October 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Convert two dwellings into one dwelling. Increase height of chimney stack and install new chimney pot. Form driveway with parking / turning area and erect gates. Carry out alterations to outbuilding to form home office. Demolish and rebuild retaining walls and steps.

Submitted
25 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants Ward
  1. Received25 Jun
  2. Validated25 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided31 Oct

Decided in 128 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 54-55 & 56 Durweston Blandford Forum DT11 0QA. Dorset has handled 11,876 applications of this type. This one was decided in 128 days, 12 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Durweston conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants Ward. We hold 2,461 applications in total for the DT11 postcode area.

92% of full 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
DT11 0QA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Durweston

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Old Post Office 54 Durweston Blandford Forum DT11 0QA

Additional information

Documents
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Durweston Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 53 and 54 DurwestonOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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Associated applications

  1. 2024
    25 Jun

    Convert two dwellings into one dwelling. Increase height of chimney stack and install new chimney pot. Form…

    This applicationApprovedFullP/FUL/2024/03469
  2. 2024
    25 Jun

    Increase height of chimney stack and install new chimney pot. Carry out internal and external alterations…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideP/LBC/2024/03468

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