Former St Marys School, Manor Road, Swanage, BH19 2BH
Proposal
Modify a Planning Obligation for planning permission 6/2018/0493 (Demolish temporary classrooms and outbuildings and convert existing remaining buildings to form 10 dwellings and erect 20 new dwellings with parking and landscaping. Removal of existing raised water tank) to remove requirement for affordable housing
- Received
- 11 May 2020
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Swanage Ward
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- ReceivedSubmitted11 May
- ValidatedValidated11 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided
This is an application to discharge conditions at Former St Marys School, Manor Road, Swanage, BH19 2BH. Dorset has handled 988 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. It was submitted on 11 May 2020 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Swanage conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 86 applications across Swanage Ward. We hold 1,853 applications in total for the BH19 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Swanage Conservation Area
- Article 4 direction: Swanage Conservation AreaPart of the site
- National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Also checked, none recorded (18)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
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A listed building is on or next to this site.
- 13.4 miWimborneRTPIRICS Regulated
- 29.5 miShaftesburyRTPI
- 31.7 miSalisburyRTPI
Nearest first, within 50 miles of the site. Every firm is listed free.
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