Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council: The Inspector’s report into the Joint Core Strategy of Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council has now been published. Subject to the previously published alterations the new policies have been found sound and so the Council’s may go ahead and adopt the […]
Success at Bournemouth Planning Committee: Plot split and additional dwelling
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning is delighted to have assisted in securing a planning consent for the erection of a single bedroom bungalow with associated parking in the Charminster area of Bournemouth. The application involved splitting the existing plot for an additional dwelling fronting the road to the rear, replacing […]
Approved: two storey extensions and remodel of house in Long Ditton, Surrey
Elmbridge Borough Council: Pure Town Planning have recently secured planning permission for substantial two storey extensions and a total remodel which will dramatically transform an existing house in Long Ditton in Surrey. The proposal converted the existing ageing chalet home into a large, contemporary 6-bedroom family house with multiple living spaces, […]
Southampton City Council planning policy update
Southampton City Council: This week sees the hearing sessions of the joint Examination into the City Centre Action Plan (CCAP) and Core Strategy Partial Review. Southampton’s City Centre Action Plan, which seems to have been a very long time in the making, aims to guide development in the south’s largest city centre. […]
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 […]
Approved: 28 apartments above The Royal Arcade in Boscombe, Bournemouth
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning are delighted to announce that we have just secured planning permission for external alterations in the form of an external Victorian gantry and the conversion of the upper floors of the Grade II Listed, Royal Arcade, into 28 residential apartments. The Royal Arcade has been […]
New Forest District: the Inspector reports
New Forest District Council: The Inspector has issued his examination reports into both the Local Plan Part 2: Sites and Development Management DPD and the Community Infrastructure Levy Draft Charging Schedule at New Forest District Council. Both have been found sound subject to some modification. The Local Plan Part 2 provides some detailed Development Management […]
Approved: new detached dwelling in Lower Parkstone, Poole
Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning is delighted to have secured planning consent for a brand new detached dwelling to slot into the street frontage in a road in the Whitecliff area of Lower Parkstone, Poole. Sometimes you see a gap in a street frontage and you wonder “why didn’t […]
De ja vu? More new permitted development rights…
England: Well it must be that time of year again. The Government have published a new amendment to the General Permitted Development Order introducing a number of new permitted development rights for change of use coming into effect 06 April 2014 including: 1) Use Class A1 and A2 to residential […]
Won on appeal: two detached dwellings on garden site in Christchurch
Christchurch Borough Council: Pure Town Planning achieved another successful appeal decision last week this time in the Walkford area of Christchurch. Christchurch Borough Council refused planning consent for two new detached dwellings on a site which formed the large rear garden of a dwelling despite fronting a residential cul-de-sac. The Council, under pressure from […]