Wool Water Recycling Centre East Burton Road Wool Wareham BH20 6HE Data via plota.co.uk

P/ESC/2026/05219 - EIA Screening Opinion Out To Consultation

Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion - Proposed upgrade and extension of the Wool Water Recycling Centre Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

18 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 13 Nov 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 7 Nov 2026 and 17 Nov 2026, from Dorset's recent utility and infrastructure works.

Documents 2

Site constraints 8

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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) agrees.

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.

SSSI 30 m away: River Frome SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

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

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Scheduled monument 135 m away: Bowl barrow 300m south east of Hyford Cottage

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: Wild Purbeck; Priority habitat 28 m away: Lowland fens; Open access land 30 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 30 September 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: EIA Screening Opinion
Postcode: BH20 6HE
Received: 18 Sept 2026
Validated: 18 Sept 2026
Ward: West Purbeck Ward
Parish: Wool
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: Sarah Milne

Decision outlook

Day 17 of the 56-day target. Dorset usually decides utility and infrastructure works by day 55.

prediction

Day 1739 days to the 56-day target

59%decided within 8 weeks

93%approved

95decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by Dorset in the last twelve months, from validation. Dorset decision record →

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2020 Approved

Tanglefoot East Burton Road Wool BH20 6HF

Non material amendment to planning permission 6/2019/0001 (Demolish existing single store…

6/2020/0635 2 Feb 2021

2019 Approved

Tanglefoot, East Burton Road, Wool, Wareham, BH20 6HF

Demolish existing single storey dwelling & replace with two storey dwelling

6/2019/0001 15 Apr 2019

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