Silverlake Warmwell Road Crossways DT2 8HU Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Variation of permission : Outline planning permission for 'Silverlake' a sustainable vacation community including up to 1,000 holiday chalets/lodges with storage barns, country club and leisure facilities, hotel, maintenance buildings, sales centre, primary/secondary/tertiary bio-digestion facilities, nature conservation areas and habitat management, an area of Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG), landscape and woodland planting and associated infrastructure and remediation. Details of 'appearance', 'landscaping', 'layout' and 'scale' to be reserved matters. Full planning permission for sales centre, car parking, entrance gates, access road to first phase of holiday units, landscape measures and permissive footpath. With removal of condition 17 of planning permission to no longer secure a right turn ban from the A352. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 Jun 2026
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Approved
13 Aug 2026

Approved on 13 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 25 Sept 2026

Site constraints 5

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 3a
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.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Scheduled monument 186 m away: Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood; Nature improvement area: Wild Purbeck.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 25 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
Variation of Condition
Postcode
DT2 8HU
Received
18 Jun 2026
Validated
18 Jun 2026
Ward
Crossways Ward
Parish
West Knighton
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted
Decision date
13 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 92% of commercial and major works here are.

56%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
139decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
31 Jul 2026
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