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Wordsworth House 2 Belle Vue Road Swanage BH19 2HR

P/VOC/2024/03250Variation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 December 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Extension, alteration and change of use of former care home to create 16 x 1 and 2 bedroom apartments (with variation of condition 2 of PA P/FUL/2022/07397:- externally on the west elevation install additional solar photovoltaic panels, alongside changing the ground floor bay windows to French doors to serve Apartment 5. On south elevation to amend two windows at first floor level to French doors and provide a balcony area to serve Apartment 8; at ground floor level to amend window to French door to serve Apartment 6. Insertion of dormer windows to serve stairwell for Apartment 12 at the mezzanine level and change window to French doors at ground floor level to serve Apartment 1. Insertion of two rooflights below solar photovoltaic panels serving Apartment 16; at roof level two AOV's proposed to be installed above the stairwell)

Submitted
14 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Swanage Ward
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 172 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Wordsworth House 2 Belle Vue Road Swanage BH19 2HR. Dorset has handled 989 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 19 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Swanage Ward. We hold 1,868 applications in total for the BH19 postcode area.

95% of conditions 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
BH19 2HR
Application type
Variation of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swanage

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Anniversary House 23 Abbott Road Bournemouth BH9 1EU

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2024
    14 Jun

    Extension, alteration and change of use of former care home to create 16 x 1 and 2 bedroom apartments (with…

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)P/VOC/2024/03250
  2. 2022
    25 Nov

    Extension, alteration and change of use of former Care Home to create 16 x 1 and 2 bedroom apartments

    ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationPart ofP/FUL/2022/07397

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