Land south-east of Sunrise Business Park and north of the A350 Blandford Bypass, Blandford Forum.
Approved on 27 January 2025
Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee
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Proposal
Development of a waste management centre for the bulking and transfer of waste and recyclables, comprising a covered waste transfer station, with waste storage, sprinkler tank and pump house, and a split-level household recycling centre with vehicle unloading bays and partially covered central yard, a dedicated 're-use centre', WEEE storage building, office building, staff parking area, weighbridge and associated landscaping. Formation of new access from A350 (with variation of condition 3 of planning permission P/VOC/2022/06369 to allow archaeological and certain construction works to proceed concurrently).
- Submitted
- 11 December 2024
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Blandford Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted11 Dec
- ValidatedValidated11 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided27 Jan
Decided in 47 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an application to vary a condition at Land south-east of Sunrise Business Park and north of the A350 Blandford Bypass, Blandford Forum.. Dorset has handled 989 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 5 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Blandford Ward.
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
- Application type
- Variation of Condition
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Blandford Forum
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 December 2024
- Committee meeting
- 27 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Dorset Council County Hall Colliton Park Dorchester DT1 1XJ
Additional information
- Documents
- 68
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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