Winchester City Council: Pure Town Planning has just received confirmation from Winchester City Council that a larger rear extension proposed at a house in Harestock may go ahead. The owners are taking advantage of the time limited permitted development right introduced last year allowing larger single storey rear extensions in […]
Approved: extensions and total remodel near Sevenoaks, Kent
Sevenoaks District Council: Pure Town Planning working closely with Tony Holt Design have recently secured an excellent consent for a client in the metropolitan green belt near Sevenoaks in Kent. The existing property is an unusual dwelling created some years ago by the conversion of various agricultural buildings. The place […]
North Dorset planning policy changes coming – get your consents in place…
North Dorset District Council: It’s a while since we’ve done one of these call to arms but the developing planning policy of North Dorset District Council warrants carefully attention and action where necessary. The headline is this: if you have a potential residential development site which doesn’t have planning consent within one […]
Poole consults on deletion of Conservation Areas
Borough of Poole: Well about time too! The Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs areas of Poole have become littered with conservation areas over the years from the huge Branksome Park Conservation Area to the absurdly small with just a handful of buildings in them. The Borough of Poole has embarked on a rationalisation exercise […]
Won on appeal: plot split with new bungalow in Bournemouth
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning are pleased to have won another planning appeal for a client this time in the Charminster area of Bournemouth. The plot formed one of a short row of rear access points with garages fronting a main street and the proposal was to replace one of […]
Approved: certificate of lawfulness to turn former paddock into garden in Bedfordshire
Central Bedfordshire Council: Pure Town Planning recently successfully obtained a certificate of lawfulness for clients at Henlow in Bedfordshire to confirm that the use of a former paddock as garden is lawful. Our client only recently acquired the land but fortunately the previous owner and a neighbour were willing to make Statutory […]
Approved: new modular building at Bournemouth language school
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning were recently pleased to obtain planning consent for a single storey modular building for one of Bournemouth’s largest language schools – indeed the campus is claimed to be the biggest language school campus in the country. Despite this, the site of the new building was […]
Christchurch and East Dorset propose CIL charges
Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council: This troublesome pair are at it again. Not content with adopting their joint Core Strategy at the end of last month, the partnership which we will now refer to as CHED has published a Draft Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule. In our now customary […]
Won on appeal: new bungalow on a garden site in Shrewton, Wiltshire
Wiltshire Council: Pure Town Planning was delighted recently to win a planning appeal for one of our developer clients at Shrewton in Wiltshire. Shrewton is an attractive village set in a valley just off the A303 near Stonehenge. The appeal site was a unique plot set on the edge of a steep […]
Approved: new build holiday let in Wiltshire conservation area
Wiltshire Council: Pure Town Planning are pleased to have secured planning permission for a new holiday let property on a tiny site on the edge of the village of Barford St Martin near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Our client originally approached us with a small paddock having noticed that a small overgrown […]