Ambassador Pools & Leisure Ambassador Business Park Shaftesbury Road West Stour SP8 5SE
Approved on 8 October 2026
Council decision: Granted3 conditions
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Proposal
Erect a storage building
- Submitted
- 14 August 2026
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Gillingham
- ReceivedSubmitted14 Aug
- ValidatedValidated14 Aug
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided8 Oct
Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a planning application at Ambassador Pools & Leisure Ambassador Business Park Shaftesbury Road West Stour SP8 5SE. Dorset has handled 204 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 13 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Gillingham. We hold 545 applications in total for the SP8 postcode area.
89% of full planning 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
- SP8 5SE
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Parish
- West Stour
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Brimble Lea Unit 3 Kingsmead Business Park Shaftesbury Road Gillingham SP8 5FB
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Nicholas Batten
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (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.
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