Land at Potterne Hill Penny's Mead Wimborne BH21 5QH
Approved on 23 January 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
The upgrade of the existing telecommunications site, comprising the installation of a generator within the existing fenced compound, and ancillary development thereto.
- Submitted
- 3 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Cranborne and Alderholt Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted3 Dec
- ValidatedValidated3 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided23 Jan
Decided in 51 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land at Potterne Hill Penny's Mead Wimborne BH21 5QH. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 9 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Cranborne and Alderholt Ward. We hold 2,300 applications in total for the BH21 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
- BH21 5QH
- Application type
- Prior Approval - Electronic Communication Network
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Cranborne
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Abel Smith House Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 2ST
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (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, 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.
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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