6 Gover Close Ridge BH20 5BU
Proposal
Create first floor habitable accommodation over garage and internal alterations
- Received
- 17 August 2026
- Decided
- 9 October 2026 · Granted
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Wareham
- ReceivedSubmitted17 Aug
- ValidatedValidated17 Aug
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided9 Oct
Decided in 53 days (council typically 42)
This is a planning application for a garage at 6 Gover Close Ridge BH20 5BU. Dorset has handled 185 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 47 days. This one was decided in 53 days, 6 days longer than Dorset's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Wareham. We hold 1,008 applications in total for the BH20 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Article 4 direction: Land at New Road/Arne Road, Ridge
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
- National nature reserve: Purbeck Heaths
- Heritage coast: Purbeck
- 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 (18)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, local nature reserves and brownfield registers.
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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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
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