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P/VOC/2026/01514 - Variation of Condition Approved

Proposal

The creation of intertidal habitat and restricted tidal exchange shallow saltwater lagoons, through managed realignment involving selective breaching of existing tidal embankments. The provision of new set-back earth embankments, including the provision of flapped surface water outfalls, tidal exchange culverts, and an improved channel and outfall for the Furzebrook Stream. The formation of permissive footpaths and screens for public to view birds from, maintenance access tracks and the provision of associated gates, fences and boundary treatment works (with variation of condition 2, 4, 6,12 and 14 of planning permission to enable a series of design changes as referred to in the Planning Statement) (variation of condition 1 of PA to replace approved drawings to enable three design changes, which include:-, - Omission of the low-permeability core from Eastern, Western and Lagoon Embankments;, - Breach and inundation area design changes, and, - The provision of connecting ditches between borrow pits in the Southern Lagoon) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

17 Mar 2026

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Approved

3 Aug 2026

Approved on 3 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 10 Aug 2026

Documents 32

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show 106kb · 15 May 2026 View ↗

Associated applications 4

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Full25 Apr 2023council archive
- VariationThe creation of intertidal habitat and restricted tidal exchange shallow saltwater lagoons…This application17 Mar 2026P/VOC/2026/01514
  - AmendmentNon-material amendment to Approved P/A (The creation of intertidal habitat and restricted…7 Aug 2026P/NMA/2026/04295
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  - Conditions20 Mar 2025archive

Site constraints 10

Ramsar wetland: Poole Harbour

Internationally or nationally protected for its wildlife. A habitats assessment is needed.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

SSSI: Wareham Meadows SSSI

Natural England must be consulted on work that may affect it.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Dorset National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Priority habitat: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Heritage coast: Purbeck

A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.

Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 5. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: Wild Purbeck.

Not affected

Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Dorset
Application type: Variation of Condition
Postcode: BH20 5BN
Received: 17 Mar 2026
Validated: 17 Mar 2026
Ward: Wareham Ward
Parish: Arne
Decision: Granted
Decision date: 3 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Megan Deacon

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 19 Apr 2026

Historical activity at this location

3 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2018 Approved

1 Bank Gate Cottages, Arne Road, Ridge, Wareham, BH20 5BH

Erect single storey rear extension and convert outbuilding to ancillary accommodation to…

6/2018/0129 11 May 2018

2017 Approved

1 Bank Gate Cottages, Arne Road, Ridge, Wareham, BH20 5BH

Erect single storey rear extension with roof lantern.

6/2017/0722 21 Feb 2018

2017 Approved

3 Bankgate Cottages, Arne Road, Ridge, BH20 5BH

Erect a single storey rear extension

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Dorset

Planning Authority Score

7.5/10

Good

#44 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Dorset is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #51 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Dorset decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #80 of 296

95%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #74 of 296

78%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #51 of 296

35%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #102 of 296

81%

Minor dwellings approved

344 decided (1-9 homes)

85%

Major dwellings approved

40 decided (10+ homes)

76%

Change of use approved

85 decided

2,781

Total decisions

233 refused in the year to March 2026

The Moors Arne Road Ridge Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 32

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 11

Plans & drawings 6

Application forms 1