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Ringstead Farm Access Road To Ringstead Dairy Ringstead DT2 8NF

P/PAAF/2026/00260Prior Approval - Agricultural to Flexible Commercial UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not PDDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use of a redundant former dairy building and adjacent portal frame barn to flexible commercial use under use Class E (commercial, business or service).

Submitted
15 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Crossways Ward
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 54 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Ringstead Farm Access Road To Ringstead Dairy Ringstead DT2 8NF. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 12 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Crossways Ward. We hold 2,424 applications in total for the DT2 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
DT2 8NF
Application type
Prior Approval - Agricultural to Flexible Commercial Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Osmington

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2026
Consultation expiry
6 February 2026
Consultation end
6 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
93-94 High Street Marlborough Wiltshire SN8 1HD

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.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • 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 (21)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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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