Planning application
Sherborne Dance Academy North Road Sherborne DT9 3JN
Works: Extension Loft or dormer Windows or glazing Small domestic
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Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.
Proposal
Non-material amendment - not to add a first floor to the residence, therefore: - not to lower the ground floor (instead to keep it at the existing level) - not to change the position of the window to the plant room on the south elevation (instead to keep it at the existing level) - not to change any of the windows on the North elevation (instead to keep them all as existing, but still to change the door into a window) - not to add a Velux window into the roof (instead to keep as existing) - not to separate the roof space into sections (instead to keep as existing). To replace the door on the South elevation with a window, and to replace the window on the South elevation with French doors. To change the windows in the new residence from white painted with leaded glazing to oak with plain glazing, but still with obscured glazing on the North elevation. To change the door on the East elevation of the back hall to be oak framed, glazed and larger in size, and to change the window on the same elevation to be oak framed (instead of the planned white painted) to planning permission P/FUL/2023/05372) (Change of use of part of the building to 1no. residential unit. Including lowering the ground floor in order to allow for the addition of a first floor & addition of a single storey extension on the rear elevation, between the two buildings. Removal of a section of the boundary wall to allow the addition of a new access with dropped curb onto the highway & new driveway)
As published by the council, reference P/NMA/2026/04452
Application record
- Reference
- P/NMA/2026/04452
- Type
- Non Material Amendment
- Status
- Application Refused
- Decision
- Refused
- Received
- 14 Aug 2026
- Validated
- 14 Aug 2026
- Decided
- 26 Aug 2026
- Ward
- Sherborne East Ward
- Parish
- Sherborne
- Decision by
- Delegated
- Postcode
- DT9 3JN
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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14 Aug 2026
Received by Dorset
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21 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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26 Aug 2026
Decision issued: Refused
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26 Aug 2026
Status changed to Under Officer Consideration
Previously Out To Consultation.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
11 documents on file for this application
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The process from here
The council refused this application for the reasons set out on the decision notice, which the council portal holds in full. Only the applicant can appeal a refusal; the time limit runs from the decision date and is shorter for householder schemes.
Refusal does not prevent a fresh attempt. Applicants often address the reasons for refusal and resubmit, so a refused scheme is not necessarily the end of proposals for the site.
About amendments applications
How this application type works
An amendment application changes a permission that already exists. Non-material amendments cover small adjustments with no wider effect, while minor material amendments, usually made by varying a condition, allow modest design changes without a fresh application. Anything beyond that needs a new permission, so the scope here is deliberately narrow.
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