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5 Melbury Street Melbury Abbas SP7 0DU

P/LBC/2026/00551Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 24 March 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Replace front door.

Submitted
30 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Beacon Ward
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 5 Melbury Street Melbury Abbas SP7 0DU. Dorset has handled 3,055 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 11 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 121 applications across Beacon Ward. We hold 1,993 applications in total for the SP7 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
SP7 0DU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melbury Abbas

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Studio 36 Crookhays Shaftesbury SP7 8DX

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: 4-7 Melbury Abbas VillageOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, nutrient neutrality catchments, 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.

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    16 Feb

    Erect Garage/Store with lean-to.

    PendingHouseholderP/HOU/2026/00571

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