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Phoenix House, 16 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1HH

WD/D/20/001062Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 17 August 2020

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Cement based pointing to the exterior walls; Steel bower beams fitted to support joists; New Plaster Board ceiling; The internal walls rendered in an impervious material and to some walls upstairs in flats; Air Vent to front and rear walls, rot affected timber removed, cut back and treated; Remove existing cement render finish externally to façade, remove infill masonry and water damaged finishes internally, install a lead tray beyond new render, re-close the fireplace, with air brick allowing airflow, plaster walls internally 1:3 NHL 3,5; Replacement of the front mono pitch over the shop fronts, the cantilever bracket and fascia (Retrospective and revised description).

Submitted
27 May 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dorchester West Ward
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.6 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Aug

Decided in 82 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application at PHOENIX HOUSE, 16 HIGH EAST STREET, DORCHESTER, DT1 1HH. Dorset has handled 3,055 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 6 weeks longer than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Dorchester conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Dorchester West Ward. We hold 1,737 applications in total for the DT1 postcode area.

94% of heritage 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
DT1 1HH
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dorchester
District
West Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2020
Consultation expiry
6 July 2020
Consultation end
6 July 2020

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Dorchester Conservation Area 1
  • Listed building: Grade II: 15 and 16, High East StreetOn this site · +6 more
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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, 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

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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.

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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