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Purbeck Valley Farm Valley Road Harmans Cross Swanage BH20 5HU

P/PABA/2022/00764Prior Approval - Building for Agricultural/Forestry UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 March 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Erect a new agricultural building for the provision of fodder storage measuring approximately 30.48m x 9.00m giving an area of 274m2. The proposed building will have five bays measuring approximately 6.7m wide.

Submitted
4 February 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South East Purbeck Ward
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated4 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 27 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Purbeck Valley Farm Valley Road Harmans Cross Swanage BH20 5HU. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 2 weeks quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 102 applications across South East Purbeck Ward. We hold 1,048 applications in total for the BH20 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
BH20 5HU
Application type
Prior Approval - Building for Agricultural/Forestry Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Corfe Castle

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 February 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Symonds & Sampson LLP 5 West Street Wimborne BH21 1JN

Additional information

Documents
9

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: 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 (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, 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.

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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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2022
    4 Feb

    Erect a new agricultural building for the provision of fodder storage measuring approximately 30.48m x 9.00m…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineP/PABA/2022/00764
  2. 2022
    4 Feb

    Erect an agricultural workshop measuring approximately 7m x 18.61m giving an area of 130.27m2 with an earth…

    ApprovedOutlineFiled alongsideP/PABA/2022/00765

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