Land at Victoria Square East of Lerret Road, Chiswell Portland, DT5 1AL
Proposal
Installation of one 11kV switch room building at the existing Portland SSEN owned substation site and bring the land back into operational use. Planning permission is also sought for the perimeter fencing recently erected around the area proposed to be reinstated and incorporated into the existing operational extent of the Portland Electricity Substation
- Received
- 20 August 2026
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Portland
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- ReceivedSubmitted20 Aug
- ValidatedValidated20 Aug
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided
This is a planning application at Land at Victoria Square East of Lerret Road, Chiswell Portland, DT5 1AL. Dorset has handled 143 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 40 days. It was submitted on 20 August 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Portland. We hold 105 applications in total for the DT5 postcode area.
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- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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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.
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