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The Moors Arne Road Ridge

P/VOC/2025/01655Variation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 June 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

The creation of intertidal habitat and restricted tidal exchange shallow saltwater lagoons, through managed realignment involving selective breaching of existing tidal embankments. The provision of new set-back earth embankments, including the provision of flapped surface water outfalls, tidal exchange culverts, and an improved channel and outfall for the Furzebrook Stream. The formation of permissive footpaths and screens for public to view birds from, maintenance access tracks and the provision of associated gates, fences and boundary treatment works (with variation of condition 2, 4, 6,12 and 14 of planning permission P/FUL/2022/05149 to enable a series of design changes as referred to in the Planning Statement)

Submitted
20 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wareham Ward
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Jun

Decided in 97 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at The Moors Arne Road Ridge. Dorset has handled 989 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 8 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Wareham 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
Arne

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Hub Park Avenue Aztec West Almondsbury BRISTOL BS32 4RZ

Additional information

Documents
47

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • SSSI: Wareham Meadows SSSI
  • Ramsar wetland: Poole Harbour
  • Heritage coast: Purbeck

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

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, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, 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.

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  4. 2025
    22 Aug

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  5. 2025
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