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Chapman Lily Planning are pleased to have secured outline planning permission to re-develop the former North Dorset District Council offices in Blandford to provide 40 affordable dwellings. Working with our client Aster Homes together with the urban design practice Thrive, we submitted an outline application to replace the offices that would no longer be required […]

The Planning Portal Website has made some improvements in order to speed up the transfer time to Local Authorities. This improvement identifies the correct data and places it into the correct place on the LPA system. Further long-term improvements are currently underway. Shorter-term measures are in place to improve the application process when inputting data. […]

Ministry of Housing, Communities a Local Government has today published further measures to support house building. Specifically for the planning system, they have issued a statement that site visits and the use of digital technology and virtual meetings should become the norm in planning casework. In terms of CIL payments, LPAs can undertake temporary deferment […]

Dorset Council have published a much anticipated report setting out West Dorset and Weymouth’s housing land supply position. The report shows an uplift in the number of housing completions across the area in 2018/19, with 925 dwellings built out.  This is the highest figure since the adoption of the plan in 2011, indicating that progress […]

Many planning applications involving overnight stays (e.g. residential and tourism-related) are currently on hold due to the impact that nitrates are having on the internationally-protected Solent Special Protection Area. Local authorities are facing the challenge of allowing development to take place that is nitrate neutral. To keep up to date with the very latest position […]

Chapman Lily planning are proud to be working with the Ecological Land Co-operative [“ELC”] to bring forward new smallholdings across the UK.  Managed by the ELC these smallholdings provide a means of supporting new entrants to ecological farming.  For more information contact Brett Spiller, Director at Chapman Lily Planning or review the ELC website: https://ecologicalland.coop/