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 […]
Won on appeal: extension against local policy in South Downs National Park
Winchester City Council: Pure Town Planning were pleased to succeed in a tricky appeal in the South Downs National Park and gain planning consent for our clients to extend their semi-detached dwelling at Bramdean, Hampshire. Adopted local plan policy CE.23 in the Winchester City Council area (applicable both within and […]
Won on appeal: residential plot split in Lilliput, Poole
Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning are pleased to report another planning appeal win this time in the Lilliput area of the Borough of Poole. The proposal was to knock down one corner dwelling and build two slimmer houses side by side. The Council turned the proposal down on grounds it […]
Won on appeal with full costs: two detached dwellings in Ensbury Park, Bournemouth
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured what one could call the “double whammy” when it comes to planning appeals – the appeal allowed with a full award of costs to the appellant. I’m afraid this is (what should be) a salutary reminder of what happens when Planning […]
Won on appeal: detached family house in Poole, Dorset
Borough of Poole: Just ten days into the new year and at Pure Town Planning we were already celebrating our first planning appeal win of 2014. The site was the plot of an unusually located house set just off Ringwood Road in the Newtown area of Poole. Our client had already […]
Won on appeal: change of use of hotel to residential in Bournemouth
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning are celebrating another appeal win this time defeating Bournemouth Borough Council’s tricky policy preventing the change of use of hotels. A saga which has lasted for over year has ended with a Planning Inspector granting planning permission for the small hotel to change to a dwelling. […]
Won on appeal: new supermarket with 11 flats above in Christchurch

Christchurch Borough Council: Pure Town Planning are celebrating another appeal win in Christchurch. The proposal was for a three storey mixed-use building with a 4000 square foot supermarket on the ground floor with eleven apartments on the upper two floors. The scheme had previously been turned down twice by Christchurch […]
Approved: upgrade to house won on appeal in Ashley Heath
East Dorset District Council: At the end of last year Pure Town Planning celebrated an appeal win for a new dwelling at Ashley Heath near Ringwood against East Dorset District Council. The proposal was for a plot subdivision and a new dwelling in one of East Dorset’s “Special Character Areas”. The […]
Won on appeal: holiday let in the New Forest National Park
New Forest National Park Authority: Pure Town Planning are delighted to have won an appeal in the New Forest National Park to convert a building into a new holiday let following an appeal hearing in Lymington last month. The appeal proposal is on the lovely Red Shoot Camping Park in the […]
Approved: four back-to-back townhouses in Penn Hill, Poole
Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning’s recent run of planning approvals shows no sign of slowing down… Planning permission has just been unanimously granted at Poole Planning Committee to replace a bungalow with four back-to-back town houses in Pen Hill. This planning consent follows a previous application for a larger […]