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Land to the east of Wessex Water's existing Railway Cottages pumping station, East Burton Road, Wool, BH20 6HG

P/HED/2025/00001Hedgerow Removal ConsentApproved

Approved on 26 February 2025

Council decision: Tree Works - CA - No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

The removal of two sections of hedgerow totalling 45m is required to enable installation of a new below ground tank installed under permitted development rights. Once the works have been completed, the hedgerows will be reinstated (less 1.2m for the installation of a pedestrian gate) as per STD/836, using species mix to match the surrounding hedgerows.

Submitted
24 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Purbeck Ward
  1. Received24 Jan
  2. Validated24 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Feb

Decided in 33 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land to the east of Wessex Water's existing Railway Cottages pumping station, East Burton Road, Wool, BH20 6HG. Dorset has handled 5,931 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 9 days quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across West Purbeck Ward. We hold 1,048 applications in total for the BH20 postcode area.

95% of trees 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
BH20 6HG
Application type
Hedgerow Removal Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wool

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Operations Centre Claverton Down Bath BA2 7WW

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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, 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.

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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