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The Corfe Castle Town Trust Town Hall West Street Corfe Castle Wareham BH20 5HE

P/LBC/2022/08015Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 1 March 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Remove internal staircase at north end of the building. Replace existing display shelving with new display boards. Install a new hanging sign on the west elevation.

Submitted
5 January 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South East Purbeck Ward
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Corfe Castle Town Trust Town Hall West Street Corfe Castle Wareham BH20 5HE. Dorset has handled 3,055 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 13 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Corfe Castle conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 99 applications across South East Purbeck Ward. We hold 1,049 applications in total for the BH20 postcode area.

94% of heritage 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 5HE
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Corfe Castle

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Manor Stables Tout Hill Wincanton BA9 9DL

Additional information

Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Corfe Castle Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II*: The Old Town HallOn or next to this site · +4 more
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (19)

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, 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.

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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