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13 Lynmoor Road Weymouth DT4 7TW
Proposed single storey rear extension, two storey side extension and dormer window to the side roof slope
Wareham Day Centre Anglebury Court 21 Bonnets Lane Wareham BH20 4HB
Install 68.85 kWp solar PV panels spread across many of the pitched roofs of the single-storey part of the building.
Land South Of Tout Hill Shaftesbury
T19 - Beech - Fell to ground level. A replacement Beech to be replanted in a suitable location nearby away from the steep bank and shaded area.
Knoll Hill Cottage Knoll Lane Corfe Mullen BH21 3RF
Non-Material Amendment to application P/HOU/2026/03583 (Alterations to include a lightweight fully glazed link between the dwelling and replacement outbuilding, flat green/living roof to link, reduced
Pine Walk Shaftesbury
T2 - Beech - Reduce to a 6-8m monolith. T47 - Beech - Fell to ground level.
7 Damory Court Street Blandford Forum DT11 7RW
G1 Mixed Group (G3359) - Crown lift/formatively prune away from building and fell 4x Elder growing closest to the corner of the building to gain a 2m clearance.
11 Wesley Road Colehill BH21 2PG
Raise roof, alter and extend dwelling
32 Glenmoor Road Ferndown BH22 8QF
1x dead Scots Pine - fell under regulation 14 exemptions.
La Bonita 10 Custom House Quay Weymouth DT4 8BG
Installation of signage to front of restaurant premises, affixed to first floor bay window
20 Highland Road Wimborne BH21 2QN
2x dead Silver Birches - remove under regulation 14 exemptions. Fallen Beech - clear fallen tree.
31 Haycombe Durweston DT11 0PZ
Erect a rear single storey extension and a porch extension.
Gages Orchard Shadrach Burton Bradstock DT6 4QG
T1 Horse Chestnut - Fell
Ashleigh Cottage Gassons Lane Junction To Cothays Junction Whitchurch Canonicorum DT6 6RQ
T1 Quercus Robur (English Oak) - Height reduction of no more than 2m with a max cut dia of 75mm, reduction of the north and east facing crown by no more than 2.5m with a max cut dia of 50mm & internal
7 Cobham Road Ferndown Industrial Estate Wimborne BH21 7PE
Change of use of a general industrial building (Use Class B2) to a flexible commercial/industrial use comprising of Use Classes B2, B8, E(C), E(D), and E(G)
1 Church Farm High Street Sixpenny Handley Salisbury SP5 5ND
Erect a conservatory.
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When Dorset Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Dorset Council, raw rate
27.7%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
1.3 percentage points below expected. Dorset Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
1,651 appeals counted, 1,544 judged either way (427 allowed, 1,117 dismissed), 107 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 1,004 | 984 | 275 | 27.9% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 276 | 269 | 86 | 32% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 104 | 70 | 6 | 8.6% | 13.5% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 92 | 87 | 21 | 24.1% | 20.6% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 85 | 74 | 16 | 21.6% | 25% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 45 | 41 | 14 | 34.1% | 36.9% |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 8 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 7 | 7 | 4 | 57.1% | 33.3% |
| Environmental | 7 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Common Land | 6 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | 3 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 8.1% |
| High Hedges | 3 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Advert Discontinuance | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 19.1% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 2 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 36% |
| Community Infrastructure Levy Appeal | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 25.2% |
| Rights of Way Modifications | 2 | 2 | 2 | Too few judged | 100% |
| Section 106 Agreement | 2 | 2 | 2 | Too few judged | 39.8% |
| Rights Of Way - Schedule 14D | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Dorset Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Dorset Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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