54 Meadowsweet Lane Darlington DL1 1GX
Approved on 22 May 2025
Council decision: GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness for existing development - conversion of existing garage into habitable space and the installation of gravel driveway to front of property
- Received
- 2 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Darlington Borough Council
- Ward
- Stephenson
- ReceivedReceived2 Apr
- ValidatedValidated16 Apr
- Consult.Consultation13 May
- TargetTarget Date7 Jun
- DecidedDecided22 May
Decided in 36 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an outline application for a garage at 54 Meadowsweet Lane Darlington DL1 1GX. Darlington has handled 73 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 8 days longer than Darlington's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Stephenson. We hold 333 applications in total for the DL1 postcode area.
94% of outline applications at Darlington Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DL1 1GX
- Application type
- Lawful Use Certificate
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Darlington Urban Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 13 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 22 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 22 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 13 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 7 June 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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