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Summer Lodge Church Farm Estate Church Street West Stour Gillingham SP8 5FT

P/VOC/2026/04907Variation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 October 2026

Council decision: Granted4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use of land from agricultural to residential. Erect garage workshop with home office above (With Variation of condition 2 of planning permission P/FUL/2023/06044 to amend approved plans).

Submitted
4 September 2026
Ward
Gillingham
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 48 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a planning application for a garage at Summer Lodge Church Farm Estate Church Street West Stour Gillingham SP8 5FT. Dorset has handled 46 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 6 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Gillingham. We hold 545 applications in total for the SP8 postcode area.

100% of variation of condition 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
SP8 5FT
Application type
Variation of Condition
Parish
West Stour

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Summer Lodge Church Farm Estate West Stour SP85FT

Planning decision

Case officer
Nicholas Batten

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: West Stour Conservation Area 2Part of the site

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, 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, National Landscapes, 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.

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