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Holway Farm Buildings Holway Sandford Orcas Sherborne DT9 4RZ

P/PAAC/2025/05625Prior Approval - Agricultural to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 November 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use and conversion of 2no agricultural buildings to form 5no dwellings (demolition of agricultural buildings)

Submitted
22 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sherborne Rural Ward
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated22 Sep
  3. Consult.17 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Nov

Decided in 53 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Holway Farm Buildings Holway Sandford Orcas Sherborne DT9 4RZ. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 11 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Sherborne Rural Ward. We hold 3,010 applications in total for the DT9 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
DT9 4RZ
Application type
Prior Approval - Agricultural to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sandford Orcas

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 September 2025
Consultation expiry
17 October 2025
Consultation end
17 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Agriculture House Market Place Sturminster Newton DT10 1DU

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.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett CatchmentApplies 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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