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St Andrews Farm Barn Woodbridge Lane Bedchester SP7 0BF

P/PAAC/2025/00128Prior Approval - Agricultural to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 March 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use & conversion of agricultural building (Unit 1) to dwellinghouse (Class C3)

Submitted
9 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Beacon Ward
  1. Received9 Jan
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at St Andrews Farm Barn Woodbridge Lane Bedchester SP7 0BF. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in 2 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.

84% of outline 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 0BF
Application type
Prior Approval - Agricultural to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fontmell Magna

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2025
Consultation expiry
4 February 2025
Consultation end
4 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Kingston View Kingston Lane Kingston Sturminster Newton DT10 2DZ

Additional information

Documents
40

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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