3B Houndgate Darlington DL1 5RL
Approved on 31 October 2025
Council decision: GRANTED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from hot food takeaway to public house and off licence (Retrospective Application)
- Received
- 16 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Darlington Borough Council
- Ward
- Park East
- ReceivedReceived16 Sep
- ValidatedValidated19 Sep
- Consult.Consultation15 Oct
- TargetTarget Date10 Nov
- DecidedDecided31 Oct
Decided in 42 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 3B Houndgate Darlington DL1 5RL. Darlington has handled 38 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 3 days longer than Darlington's typical decision time. The site is in the Darlington Town Centre conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Park East. We hold 333 applications in total for the DL1 postcode area.
100% of amendment 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 5RL
- Application type
- Change Of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Darlington Urban Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 24 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 15 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 15 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 24 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 10 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 31 October 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 3 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 24 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 29 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 20 October 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Darlington Town Centre
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Darlington
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